Requirements and Limitations for Activating a Boot Environment
To successfully activate a boot environment, that boot environment must meet the following conditions:
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The boot environment must have a status of “complete.” |
To check status, see Displaying the Status of All Boot Environments |
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If the boot environment is not the current boot environment, you cannot have mounted the partitions of that boot environment by using the luumount or mount commands. |
To view man pages, see lumount(1M) or mount(1M) |
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The boot environment that you want to activate cannot be involved in a comparison operation. |
For procedures, see Comparing Boot Environments |
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If you want to reconfigure swap, make this change prior to booting the inactive boot environment. By default, all boot environments share the same swap devices. |
To reconfigure swap, see To Create a Boot Environment and Reconfiguring Swap |
x86 only –
If you have an x86 based system, you can also activate with the GRUB menu. Note the following exceptions:
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If a boot environment was created with the Solaris 8, 9, or 10 3/05 release, the boot environment must always be activated with the luactivate command. These older boot environments do not display on the GRUB menu.
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The first time you activate a boot environment, you must use the luactivate command. The next time you boot, that boot environment's name is displayed in the GRUB main menu. You can thereafter switch to this boot environment by selecting the appropriate entry in the GRUB menu.
See x86: Activating a Boot Environment With the GRUB Menu.
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