Eric Enright writes: > On 2/20/07, Andrew Pattison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It sounds like disabling auto-boot and just typing "boot s9" or "boot s11" > > would probably be the easiest way of doing it. > > I believe luactivate simply changes an NVRAM entry or two to set the > root disk, and then flags the appropriate BEs as active/inactive. > Namely the "boot-device" property.
It does more than that. It also sets up the lusync process to copy over certain files to the new environment (see /etc/lu/lu_transfer_list) and updates the boot menu on x86. With Zones, it performs a number of actions related to synchronizing the non-global zones between the two boot environments. Yes, you can do the switch using just OBP (or GRUB on x86), but the recommended way to do it is with luactivate. > So, say you have s9 installed on c0t0d0s0 and s11 installed on > c0t0d0s4, you could "boot disk:a" to get s9 or "boot disk:e" to get > s11. Setting "boot-device" to either of those will set your default. > I'm not terribly experienced with OBP so I hope someone will correct > my if any of that is wrong.. Especially I'm not sure of the > nomenclature for booting off a second disk, maybe "boot disk1:a"? That looks right. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
