The Solaris Partition is Not Recognized When Installing the Solaris OS (6346759)

When you are installing the Solaris OS, the installer does not install the OS on the Solaris partition that you have created. Instead, the installer tries to install the OS on the Linux swap partition. This problem occurs under the following conditions:

• You are installing with the Solaris interactive installation in text mode.

• You have Linux and a Linux swap partition installed on your system.

• You have created a separate partition for Solaris before running the installer.

No error message is displayed.

Workaround: Modify the partition ID for the Linux swap partition. Perform the following steps:

1. Exit the installer.

2. Open a terminal window.

3. Copy the current fdisk partition table to a temporary file.

   # fdisk -W /tmp/partfile /dev/rdsk/<disk>p0

4. Open the /tmp/partfile in vi editor.

5. Change the ID of the Linux swap partition from 130 to 132.

6. Write the fdisk partition table from the edited file.

   # fdisk -F /tmp/partfile /dev/rdsk/<disk>p0

7. Restart the installer.

   # install-solaris

8. Reboot the system after the Solaris installation is complete.

9. Change the partition ID of the Linux swap partition back to 130 by performing step 4 through step 7.