Uwe Dippel wrote: > [i]The fact is that you > can ALWAYS recover your original boot environment. The most painful > thing that you'd ever need to do is re-install grub to get the system to > point at your old BE, and that's the worst case scenario. And that's why > it is "SAFE".[/i] > > It is a moot question. Just read the respective archive, and you will find > plenty of counter-examples. > And not only mine. > Could you be more specific about where to look? I understand and am aware of some difficulties people have booting an LUed environment, but I an blissfully unaware of people not being able to revert to the orig environment. Where is the "respective archive"?
> It can't be really safe, because the old BE is modified. > What is your understanding of how the old BE is "modified"? Is there more than what I pointed out on the original e-mail. If not, then my original statement is accurate. If not, then I'd like to be educated how else LU affects the original BE. > Of course, one could imagine a system, a different one, that boots an > updated, cloned, BE from elsewhere. But not from within a slice. > > Uwe > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3237 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20090316/7722bb1c/attachment.bin>
