星期三 十月 22, 2008

Enable ZFS rootfs in Interactive Text install mode on SPARC

On Solaris nevada, ZFS rootfs could only be enabled in interactive text install mode, while for SPARC, the Java-based GUI installer gets started automatically, you don't have a chance to select this mode, one thing you could do is to exit the GUI installer, and open a terminal, run the following command,

# RUN_TEXT_INSTALL=yes install-solaris

Posted on: 十月 22, 2008

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星期二 十月 23, 2007

Boot solaris xVM off a ZFS root filesystem

Thanks Jürgen Keil for the kindly help, I could boot solaris xVM off a ZFS root filesystem now.

Just one extra step to http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/zfsboot-manual,

# mount -F lofs -o nosub / /mnt
# cp /mnt/lib/libc.so.1 /zfsroot/lib

That's because the /lib/libc.so.1 is re-mounted by another more suitable libc for the running processor. E.g., for my Intel dual core, it's

$ mount -p | grep libc
/usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap3.so.1 - /lib/libc.so.1 lofs - no

While, under xVM, the "sep" cpuid (see isainfo -v) feature isn't available.

Posted on: 十月 23, 2007

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