[install-discuss] lucreate fails with a hopeless error message

[Virginia Wray]

Is your disk an EFI labelled disk? That can generate this output error. 
If it is relabel it to a vtoc disk label and see if that helps.
ginnie

Nils Nieuwejaar wrote On 03/01/07 08:07,:

>I have a machine with two BEs and I am trying to create a third.  Each BE
>contains just two partitions: root and swap.
>
>My existing BEs:
>
>tread# lustatus
>Boot Environment           Is       Active Active    Can    Copy      
>Name                       Complete Now    On Reboot Delete Status    
>-------------------------- -------- ------ --------- ------ ----------
>nv54                       yes      no     no        yes    -         
>nv58                       yes      yes    yes       no     -         
>
>The BE I am trying to clone:
>
>tread# lufslist -n nv58
>               boot environment name: nv58
>               This boot environment is currently active.
>               This boot environment will be active on next system boot.
>
>Filesystem              fstype    device size Mounted on          Mount Options
>----------------------- -------- ------------ ------------------- --------------
>/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s1       swap       4295835648 -                   -
>/dev/dsk/c1t2d0s3       ufs        8590049280 /                   -
>
>Now I try to create the new BE:
>
>tread# lucreate -n current -m /:/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0:ufs
>[...]
>Searching /dev for possible boot environment filesystem devices
>                             
>Template entry /:/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0:ufs skipped.
>
>luconfig: ERROR: Template filesystem definition failed for /, all devices are not applicable..
>ERROR: Configuration of boot environment failed.
>
>The partition lucreate is complaining about:
>
>tread# prtvtoc /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0
>[...]
>*                          First     Sector    Last
>* Partition  Tag  Flags    Sector     Count    Sector  Mount Directory
>       0      2    00         34  16777216  16777249
>       8     11    00   71670954     16384  71687337
>
>The / filesystem for this BE:
>
>tread# prtvtoc /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s3
>[...]
>*                          First     Sector    Last
>* Partition  Tag  Flags    Sector     Count    Sector  Mount Directory
>       0      0    00       2292  16777440  16779731
>       1      3    00   16779732   8388720  25168451
>       2      5    00          0  71680008  71680007
>       3      2    00   25168452  16777440  41945891   /
>       8      1    01          0      2292      2291
>
>As far as I can see, the target partition is almost exactly the same as the
>source partition.  It's a few hundred KB smaller, but the source partition
>is only half full anyawy.
>
>The error message is just plain useless.  Obviously at some point in the
>stack, lucreate knew exactly what was "not applicable" about this
>partition.  Why is the specific failure not passed on to the user?  The
>lucreate man page doesn't even seem to describe what criteria it uses for
>determining whether a partition is 'applicable', so I don't even know where
>to start looking.
>
>Searches of docs.sun.com, opensolaris.org, and google don't turn up any
>hits for this specific error message (other than from other confused
>victims) so the error appears to be undocumented as well as vague.
>
>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  I'm happy to RTFM if
>somebody could just point me at the FM.
>
>Thanks,
>   Nils
> 
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       	Ginnie