so has anyone done it successfully on Solaris 10 sparc?

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Darren J Moffat <darr...@opensolaris.org>wrote:

> On 02/07/2010 17:57, Cindy Swearingen wrote:
>
>> I think the answer is no, you cannot rename the root pool and expect
>> that any other O/S-related boot operation will complete successfully.
>> Live Upgrade in particular would be unhappy and changing the root
>> dataset mount point might cause the system not to boot.
>>
>
> Live Upgrade on Solaris 10 does indeed get up set.  Live Upgrade does not
> exist on OpenSolaris, the equivalent beadm does not.
>
> I know this because I have had reason to rename root pools on multiple
> occasions.
>
> However you do have to be careful (it may need hand editing) with the grub
> menu as it will usually contain the name of the root pool.
>
> --
> Darren J Moffat
>



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