Solaris 10 x86 coexist with Windows XP

Hi,
I can install Solaris 10 on my laptop (Toshiba Dynabook SSX) through jumpstart installation. After that, I boot up my laptop in Windows 98 boot disk to create and format a FAT32 partition. This partition used to install Windows XP in unattended mode. When I finish Windows XP installation. I reboot my laptop in Solaris 10. Durning the boot sequence, the system reports a lot of "BAD BLOCK" harddisk errors. I tried to fix this by "fsck -y". Since the partition is badly damage. there is no way to recover it. I guess it should be a bug for this beta release. I hope that someone in Sun can figure out this problem.

Sounds more like a Windows 98 or Windows XP problem, that thrashes other OS's fdisk partitions.
I'm not sure, but does Windows 98 properly support big (>32GB) IDE disks in LBA mode? I'd double check
the fdisk tables from Solaris with "fdisk -W - /dev/rdsk/....p0" after you've created and formatted the FAT32
partition from Windows 98, maybe the FAT32 partition overlaps the Solaris fdisk partition?

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