[indiana-discuss] Installing into an existing ZFS pool

[Dave Miner]

Mark Fenwick wrote:
> 
> I have a system with two disk's. I have installed a late build of
> Nevada on one disk and OpenSolaris 2008.11 on the other. What I would
> really like is to move both of these OS's installed in a single ZFS
> pool, then I can use both disks in the same pool. I can import the
> OpenSolaris ZFS pool into the Nevada pool, but I can't work out how I
> can copy the bootable image into the Nevada ZFS pool. My attempts so
> far have left me with an unbootable BE.
> 
> 
> Any suggestions ?
> 

zfs send|recv plus manual fixups to menu.lst and vfstab, replacing 
/etc/zfs/zpool.cache with the one from your Nevada BE, and a bootadm 
update-archive should get you something that boots, I'd expect.

> Of course what would be really cool is if the installer could install
> into an existing ZFS pool. Is there a RFE for this ?
> 

Bug 1223, more or less.

Dave