[indiana-discuss] Create empty boot environment

[Martin Bochnig]

> Hi,
> 
> with lucreate in Solaris I can create an empty boot
> environment and use 
> a flashimage to install that boot environment. Can I
> do something 
> similar with beadm in OpenSolaris?
> 
> e.g.
> 
> create an empty boot environment and use zfs
> send/receive to populate 
> that boot environment
> 
> Or can this be done manually (if yes, how?)?
> 
> regards
> 
> Bernd
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bernd Schemmer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
> http://bnsmb.de/
> 
> M s temprano que tarde el mundo cambiar .
>                         Fidel Castro


Yes, you can do it entirely manually.
You do not need beadm whatsoever.
Create a zfs fs directly under the top-level of your zpool.
Make it bootable. Then populate it and adjust the Grub Menu with the proper ZFS options.
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