Solaris 10 11/06 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning

Displaying the Status of All Boot Environments

Use the Status menu or the lustatus command to display the information about the boot environment. If no boot environment is specified, the status information for all boot environments on the system is displayed.

The following details for each boot environment are displayed:

ProcedureTo Display the Status of All Boot Environments (Character User Interface)

    From the main menu, select Status.

    A table that is similar to the following is displayed:


    boot environment   Is        Active  Active     Can	    Copy
    Name               Complete  Now	 OnReboot   Delete	 Status
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    disk_a_S9          yes       yes     yes        no       -     
    disk_b_S10database  yes       no      no         yes      COPYING  
    disk_b_S9a         no        no      no         yes      - 

    Note –

    In this example, you could not perform copy, rename, or upgrade operations on disk_b_S9a because it is not complete, nor on disk_b_S10database, because a live upgrade operation is in progress.


ProcedureTo Display the Status of All Boot Environments (Command-Line Interface)

  1. Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.

    Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

  2. Type:


    # lustatus BE_name
    
    BE_name

    Specifies the name of the inactive boot environment to view status. If BE_name is omitted, lustatus displays status for all boot environments in the system.

    In this example, the status for all boot environments is displayed.


    # lustatus
    boot environment   Is        Active  Active     Can	    Copy
    Name               Complete  Now	 OnReboot   Delete	 Status
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    disk_a_S9           yes       yes     yes        no       -    
    disk_b_S10database   yes       no      no         yes      COPYING  
    disk_b_S9a          no        no      no         yes      - 

    Note –

    You could not perform copy, rename, or upgrade operations on disk_b_S9a because it is not complete, nor on disk_b_S10database because a live upgrade operation is in progress.