Evan Layton
2008-Sep-22 14:38 UTC
[zfs-discuss] [indiana-discuss] bootfs or findroot in GRUB menu?
Hi Luca, The bootfs entry is needed if you have more than one BE and wish to boot to a BE that is not the default BE set in the "bootfs" property of the root pool. This is why beadm adds this entry, it enables booting to BE''s other than the default by overriding the "bootfs" property of the root pool. Without this it would not be possible to boot any BE other than the one defined in the "bootfs" property of the root pool. Part of the problem is that beadm should really be using bootadm to add these entries in menu.lst however bootadm is not currently capable of adding the needed BOOTFS entrys. -evan Vikram Hegde wrote:> Hi, > > findroot is a replacement for the "root" command (not bootfs). bootfs > can be used with > findroot without any ill-effects. findroot menu is the preferred option > over root because the > current beadm menu (which doesn''t have either root or findroot) will not > work correctly > if you have multiple disks. > > Vikram > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Luca Morettoni <luca at morettoni.net> > To: Indiana Discuss <indiana-discuss at opensolaris.org>; > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 3:15:12 AM > Subject: [indiana-discuss] bootfs or findroot in GRUB menu? > > Hi, after some upgrade (now I run OpenSolaris snv_98 and ZFS revision > 13) I executed the upgrade steps (from [0]), but now I see this 2 entry > in menu.lst (both running well): > > #---------- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT ---------- > title Solaris 2008.11 snv_98 X86 > findroot (pool_rpool,1,a) > kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS > module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive > #---------------------END BOOTADM-------------------- > title Solaris 2008.11 snv_98 X86 > bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-98 > kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS > module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive > #============ End of LIBBE entry ============> > the first use findroot, the other bootfs, which is the *best* command to > use? > > Thanks and sorry for the cross-post! > -- > Luca Morettoni <luca(AT)morettoni(DOT)net> - http://morettoni.net > BLOG @ http://morettoni.blogspot.com/ | GPG key 0xD69411BB > jugUmbria founder - https://jugUmbria.dev.java.net/ | Thawte notary > ITL-OSUG leader - http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/itl-osug/ > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > indiana-discuss at opensolaris.org <mailto:indiana-discuss at opensolaris.org> > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > indiana-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss