The Linux Partition is Not Recognized When Installing the Solaris OS (6507774)

When you are installing the Solaris OS, the installer enables installing on the whole disk, but not on the Solaris partition that you've created. This problem occurs under the following conditions:

• You are installing with the Solaris interactive installation graphical user interface (GUI)

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

• You have created a dual-boot partition for Solaris before running the installer

The following error message is displayed:

WARNING: The initial fdisk information found on disk<disk> was invalid. 
Defaulting the entire disk to a Solaris partition.

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.