How to Specify Alternate Boot Environments in a Kernel Zone
Example 7-1 Selecting and Booting Alternate Boot Environments on a SPARC Based System
The following example shows the zone console output for alternate boot environments for the kernel zone kzone1
. The kernel zone host hardware is a SPARC system.
[Connected to zone 'kzone1' console] NOTICE: Entering OpenBoot. NOTICE: Fetching Guest MD from HV. NOTICE: Starting additional cpus. NOTICE: Initializing LDC services. NOTICE: Probing PCI devices. NOTICE: Finished PCI probing. SPARC T4-2, No Keyboard Copyright (c) 1998, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. OpenBoot 4.36.0.build_05, 2.0000 GB memory available, Serial #1845652596. Ethernet address 0:0:0:0:0:0, Host ID: 6e026c74. Boot device: disk0 File and args: -L 1 Oracle Solaris 11.2 SPARC 2 bootenv123 3 bootenv456 Select environment to boot: [ 1 - 3 ]: 2 To boot the selected entry, invoke: boot [<root-device>] -Z rpool/ROOT/bootenv123 Program terminated ok boot -Z rpool/ROOT/bootenv123 [NOTICE: Zone rebooting] NOTICE: Entering OpenBoot. NOTICE: Fetching Guest MD from HV. NOTICE: Starting additional cpus. NOTICE: Initializing LDC services. NOTICE: Probing PCI devices. NOTICE: Finished PCI probing. SPARC T4-2, No Keyboard Copyright (c) 1998, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. OpenBoot 4.36.0.build_05, 2.0000 GB memory available, Serial #1845652596. Ethernet address 0:0:0:0:0:0, Host ID: 6e026c74. Hostname: kzone1 kzone1 console login:
Example 7-2 Selecting and Booting Alternate Boot Environments on an x86 Based System
The following example shows the zone console output for alternate boot environments for the kernel zone kzone1
. The kernel zone host hardware is an x86 system.
[Connected to zone 'kzone1' console]
1 boot-2 (rpool/ROOT/boot-2)
2 Oracle Solaris 11.2 x86 (rpool/ROOT/solaris)
3 boot-1 (rpool/ROOT/boot-1)
Select environment to boot: [ 1 - 3 ]:2
Boot device: disk0 File and args:
reading module /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive...done.
reading kernel file /platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix...done.
SunOS global 5.11 11.2 i86pc i386 i86pc
Copyright (c) 1983, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Hostname: kzone1
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kzone1 console login: