[indiana-discuss] Create empty boot environment

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Bernd Schemmer <Bernd.Schemmer at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>What's the actual problem you are trying to solve? Where are you
>>>planning to get the bits from that you plan to put in that empty
>>>boot environment?
>
> Installing other distributions in parallel to OpenSolaris in the same pool,
> e.g. Milax. Belenix, etc.
>
> Also I would like this feature to reinstall for example a snapshot of the
> rootfs which I saved on another medium.
>
>>>Short answer: Right now there is no interface in beadm to allow
>>>creating an empty boot environment.
>

Seriously? Can't this do the same thing?

# beadm list
BE            Active Mountpoint Space  Policy Created
--            ------ ---------- -----  ------ -------
opensolaris-6 -      -          12.85M static 2009-04-08 09:34
opensolaris-7 NR     /          7.44G  static 2009-04-24 10:22
opensolaris-8 -      -          222.0K static 2009-05-20 12:00

# zfs create rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-9

# beadm list
BE            Active Mountpoint Space  Policy Created
--            ------ ---------- -----  ------ -------
opensolaris-6 -      -          12.85M static 2009-04-08 09:34
opensolaris-7 NR     /          7.44G  static 2009-04-24 10:22
opensolaris-8 -      -          222.0K static 2009-05-20 12:00
opensolaris-9 -      -          19.0K  static 2009-05-27 12:04

If we adjust "mountpoint" and "canmount" property (using exsisting BE
as reference), import the content of another BE that supports the same
version of zpool/zfs (possibly from backup, or from a different
system), and edit grub menu, it should work, right?

-- 
Fajar