Booting From a ZFS Root File System on a SPARC Based System
On a system with multiple ZFS BEs, you can boot from any BE by using the beadm activate
command. Both the installation process and the beadm
activation process automatically set the bootfs
property.
By default, the bootfs
property identifies the bootable file system entry in the /
pool-name
/boot/menu.lst
file. However, a menu.lst
entry can contain a bootfs
command that specifies an alternate file system in the pool. Thus, the menu.lst
file can contain entries for multiple root file systems within the pool.
When a ZFS root file system is installed, an entry similar to the following example is added to the menu.lst
file:
title release-version SPARC
bootfs rpool/ROOT/solaris
When a new BE is created, the menu.lst
file is updated automatically.
title release-version SPARC
bootfs rpool/ROOT/solaris
title solaris
bootfs rpool/ROOT/solaris2