It's a common knowledge that Solaris x86 and Linux swap have the same partition id. RedHat 6.1 seems to be fine but yesterday when I installed RedHat 6.2, I can no longer boot my Solaris x86 partition. During the RedHat 6.2 (I used "expert text") installation, there is no way I can choose which of the two swap partitions (one of which is Solaris x86 of course) I want to use, installer automatically format(?) both paritions as linux swap. Is there a way I can recover my Solaris x86 partition without reinstall? Frank
Just browsed through www.redhat.com and found http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/6.1/gotchas-6.1-4.html it talks about this problem under item 4.12. I am surprised to see the problem was there since 6.1 (I don't know why I didn't noticed it) and am wondering why it isn't fixed in 6.2. Or at least in the expert mode, it should give me a choice to use (or not use) which swap partitions. Frank
I remember it now. I had the same problem back when I was installing redhat 6.1. I managed to recover my Solaris partition without re-installing. I will do the same trick again and see if I can get my Solaris partition back. Still it is bad to see a bug in 6.1 not fixed in 6.2. By the way, I just found the same bug reported in bugzilla: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10001 The reason I didn't find it when I originally submitted my bug report is because bug 10001 is marked as "CLOSED" and won't be in the search by default. I have to explicitly check search for "CLOSED" in the "Status" column. Frank
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5539 ***