Changing a System's Boot Device

The Solaris 2.6 release now enables you to change a system's boot device during the installation. A system's boot device is the disk slice where the root file system is installed and, consequently, where the installed system will boot from.

Also, the installation program can now update the system's EEPROM if you change the new boot device, so the system can automatically boot from it (SPARC systems only). In previous releases, changing the system's boot device during an installation meant that you had to manually change the system's EEPROM so it could automatically boot from the new boot device.

This new feature is provided in the interactive Solaris installation program and by the new custom JumpStart boot_device profile keyword.

For more information, see Solaris Advanced Installation Guide.