Frank Middleton wrote: > Often the remedy for a problem is to boot from a CD, fix the issue and then > boot from disk again. Alternatively, boot from an alternate boot environment > and continue from there. > > ZFS versions break the latter option. If you've updated to the latest ZFS you > may not be able to boot an older version. Worse, there appears to be no > bootable CD for SPARC any more. > > Even without updating the ZFS version, bugs in the older version may corrupt > the newer version. For example, snv122 will no longer boot if you boot to > snv103 from a different disk and then reboot to the disk with snv122 on it > (it goes into a reboot loop).
Is there a bug ID for this particular issue? thanks, -ethan > The only solution currently seems to be to always keep a copy of a bootable > version of the current OS on a spare disk, something that may not always work > and is prone to error. > > Is there any plan to make a live CD for SPARC, or does someone have a > suggestion for a way to solve this problem some other way (i.e., other than > making a bootable disk and keeping it on a shelf somewhere)? > > Thanks
