> We don't speak the same language, sorry. Doch! (:-)
> I am not > asking what else I could do, or that it would not > work. I am trying to understand why it would not > work. To me, what is the purpose of a BE, if it will > not boot? Wouldn't it be nice to have a BE to which > one can simply boot when disaster occurs? No? No. That's what Flash(TM) and JumpStart(TM) technologies, combined, are for. > > The man-page says > The following are some of the tasks you can > perform with > Live Upgrade software: > o You can make one or more copies of the > currently > running system. > for, except of a possible upgrade. The word 'copy' > is misleading, since it won't boot. I don't see how you get copy ---> boot? A BootBlock is a special piece of binary code contained on a special place on the disk. This isn't Amiga and XCopy with "nibble copying" you know (;-) If you want bit-for-bit copies, you should use dd(1), although dd(1) will need to have an exact disk size / disk slice to restore, and is therefore not recommended. > I got it know. Did you get the point, that > it was fabulous if it did provide a bootable > environment? The LiveUpgrade technology, irrespective of the BE terminology used, is meant to provide a copy of the OS in order to upgrade it. Now "BE" might be a misnomer, but consider this: if I give you a banana and tell you I call it a pineapple, does that make it a pineapple, or is it still a banana? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
