Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot vs Linux fuse

2008-10-22 Thread Andrew Gallatin
For what it is worth, I ended up using Linux to dd the Solaris partition from an identical machine. I realize that ZFS is a huge step forward on a huge number of fronts, but the boot process has got to improve, or else it should not be offered as a root filesystem. Even in the "bad old days" o

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot vs Linux fuse

2008-10-22 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Neal Pollack wrote: > Simple, the equiv of failsafe for OpenSolaris is to boot the live-cd, > then manually mount your disk drive. Yuck. The lack of a failsafe is a *huge* step backwards, considering how fragile the ZFS root seems to be. The idea of having to have somebody on-site at a datac

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot vs Linux fuse

2008-10-22 Thread Neal Pollack
On 10/22/08 09:02 AM, Andrew Gallatin wrote: Johan Hartzenberg wrote: Reboot to the grub menu Move to the failsafe kernel entry Ugh. This is OpenSolaris (Indiana), and there *is* no failsafe as far as I can tell. There is one grub entry for Solaris: #-- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot vs Linux fuse

2008-10-22 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Johan Hartzenberg wrote: > Reboot to the grub menu > Move to the failsafe kernel entry Ugh. This is OpenSolaris (Indiana), and there *is* no failsafe as far as I can tell. There is one grub entry for Solaris: #-- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT -- title OpenSolaris 2008.05 snv_86_

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot vs Linux fuse

2008-10-22 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
Reboot to the grub menu Move to the failsafe kernel entry tap "e" to edit entry. go to the kernel entry and tap "e" again Append -kv to the end of the line Accept and tap "b" to boot the line. After some output you will be prompted to mount the root pool on /a - Enter y to accept. You will then g

[zfs-discuss] ZFS boot vs Linux fuse

2008-10-22 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Hi, I have a triple boot amd64 Linux/FreeBSD/OpenSolaris box used for Q/A. It is in a data center where I don't have easy physical access to the machine. It was working fine for months, now I see this at boot time on the serial console: SunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_86 64-bit Copyright 19