Deleting an Inactive Boot Environment

Use either the Delete menu or the ludelete command to remove a boot environment. Note the following limitations.

• You cannot delete the active boot environment or the boot environment that is activated on the next reboot.

• The boot environment to be deleted must be complete. A complete boot environment is not participating in an operation that will change its status. Use Displaying the Status of All Boot Environments to determine a boot environment's status.

• You cannot delete a boot environment that has file systems mounted with lumount.

• x86 only: Starting with the Solaris 10 1/06 release, you cannot delete a boot environment that contains the active GRUB menu. Use the lumake or luupgrade commands to reuse the boot environment. To determine which boot environment contains the active GRUB menu, see x86: Locating the GRUB Menu's menu.lst File (Tasks).

To Delete an Inactive Boot Environment (Character User Interface)

Steps

1. From the main menu, select Delete.

2. Type the name of the inactive boot environment you want to delete:

   Name of boot environment: solaris8

   The inactive boot environment is deleted.

To Delete an Inactive Boot Environment (Command-Line Interface)

Steps

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:

   # ludelete BE_name

   BE_name

   Specifies the name of the inactive boot environment that is to be deleted

Example 11–3 Deleting an Inactive Boot Environment (Command-Line Interface)

In this example, the boot environment, second_disk, is deleted.

# ludelete second_disk