Hi, I've now gone through both the opensolaris instructions:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/zfsboot-manual/ and Tim Foster's script: http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_bootable_datasets_happily_rumbling for making my laptop ZFS bootable. Both work well and here's a big THANK YOU to the ZFS boot team! There seem to be 3 smaller glitches with these approaches: 1. The instructions on opensolaris.org assume that one wants console output to show up in /dev/tty. This may be true for a server, but it isn't for a laptop or workstation user. Therefore, I suggest someone explains them to be optional as not everybody knows that these can be left out. 2. After going through the zfs-bootification, Solaris complains on reboot that /etc/dfs/sharetab is missing. Somehow this seems to have been fallen through the cracks of the find command. Well, touching /etc/dfs/sharetab just fixes the issue. 3. But here's a more serious one: While booting, Solaris complains: Apr 19 15:00:37 foeni kcf: [ID 415456 kern.warning] WARNING: No randomness provider enabled for /dev/random. Use cryptoadm(1M) to enable a provider. Somehow, /dev/random and/or it's counterpart in /devices seems to have suffered from the migration procedure. Does anybody know how to fix the /dev/random issue? I'm not very fluent in cryptoadm(1M) and some superficial reading of it's manpage did not enlighten me too much (cryptoadm list -p claims all is well...). Best regards and again, congratulations to the ZFS boot team! Constantin -- Constantin Gonzalez Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/ Sitz d. Ges.: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Marcel Schneider, Wolfgang Engels, Dr. Roland Boemer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
