On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Frank Cusack <fr...@linetwo.net> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha <w...@fajar.net> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Frank Cusack <fr...@linetwo.net> wrote: >> > >> > If we ignore the vbox aspect of it, and assume real hardware with real >> > devices, of course you can install on one x86 hardware and move the >> > drive to >> > boot on another x86 hardware. This is harder on SPARC (b/c hostid and >> > zfs >> > mount issues) but still possible. >> >> Have you tried? :D > > Yes, I do this all the time. Between identical hardware, though. It used > to be tricky when you had to know actual device paths and/or /dev/dsk/* > names but with zfs that issue has gone away and it doesn't matter if drives > show up at different locations when moving the boot drive around. >
Ah, you're more experienced that I am then. In that case you might want to try: - boot with live CD on your sun box - plug your usb drive there - force-import then export your usb root pool (to eliminate any disk path or ID problem) - try boot from usb drive - if the above still doesn't work, try running installgrub: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide#ZFS_Root_Pool_and_Boot_Issues I'm still trying to install sol11 on USB, but it's dreadfully slow on my system (not sure why) -- Fajar _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
