I run the live Solaris 11.1 installation. After answering questions about the preferred keyboard and language the graphical live install comes up. It says there is a missing device driver and when I look it is a RAID driver. That's OK since I don't need RAID under Solaris since I do not use RAID anyway.
When I bring up GParted in the live install it shows absolutely no partitions for any of the devices. It shows 4 devices although I have only three hard drives. Maybe the 4th device is the CD-ROM from which I have booted. The devices are labelled /dev/dsk/c7d0p0, /dev/dsk/c7d1p0, /dev/dsk/c8d0p0, and /dev/dsk/c8t1d0p0. My guess is that these are the SATA devices, with the 3 hard drives and the CD-ROM drive, since they are all off of my SATA contoller.
But there are no partitions showing in the Solaris GParted even though when I boot the latest live GParted disk and bring up GParted it shows all my individual primary and logical partitions on all drives.
Maybe Solaris 11.1 is just not for my system, since it can't find my hard disk partitions. I have an MSI K9A2 Platinum motherboard with 3 2TB SATA 3.0 drives. I know it is not the latest and greatest but it is really surprising that Solaris cannot read the partition table on these drives, even though GParted outside of Solaris, as well as Minitools live or under Windows 7, has no problem reading the partition table and showing my partitions.
Does anyone know why Solaris live cannot correctly read my hard disk partitions ?