They appear in the extended partitions bit (hd5-16)
Linux doesn't really have enough minor numbers to cope well with this, so only
usable slices are allocated to extended partition labels; the boot time code
tries to tell you what went where, so when I boot my machine it says something
like:
sdc: sdc1 <solaris: [s0] sdc5 [s1] sdc6 [s3] sdc7 [s5] sdc8 [s6] sdc9 >
showing I have one MS-DOS partition on sdc1 containing my solaris slices.
I haven't actually got around to looking at the devfs patches yet. When I do
I'll try to hammer the solaris x86 slice recognition code into a form which
can be used by devfs. You can see that if one disc has both solaris and linux
extended partitions, we rapidly run out of minor numbers.
James