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System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

Description of the menu.lst File (ZFS Support)

The following are various examples of a menu.lst file for a boot environment that contains a ZFS boot loader:

Note –

Because the miniroot is mounted as the real root file system, the entry for failsafe booting in the menu.lst file does not change to the ZFS bootfs property, even if the failsafe archive is read from a ZFS dataset. The ZFS dataset is not accessed after the boot loader reads the miniroot.

Example 15–1 Default menu.lst File (New Installation or Standard Upgrade)


title Solaris 11 s10x_90 X86
findroot (pool_rpool,0,a)
kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS
module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive

title Solaris 11 failsafe
findroot (pool_rpool,0,a)
kernel /boot/platform/i86pc/kernel/unix -s -B console=ttyb
module /boot/x86.miniroot-safe
Example 15–2 Default menu.lst File (Solaris Live Upgrade)


title be1
findroot (BE_be1,0,a)
bootfs rpool/ROOT/szboot_0508
kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS
module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive

title be1 failsafe
findroot (BE_be1,0,a)
kernel /boot/platform/i86pc/kernel/unix -s -B console=ttyb
module /boot/x86.miniroot-safe