On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Bernd Schemmer <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
