On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 02:31:30PM -0400, Dave Miner wrote:
> Ceri Davies wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:40:20PM -0400, Dave Miner wrote:
> >> Ceri Davies wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>> I'm trying to get an alternative boot environment created on Solaris 10,
> >>> 11/06, and am having problems with the "merged" keyword.
> >>> I want to create a new BE on c0t0d0s5, and merge / and /usr onto it.
> >>> Here's what I think will do that:
> >>> # lucreate -n be2 -c be1 -m /:/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5:ufs -m /usr:merged:ufs
> >>> Discovering physical storage devices
> >>> Discovering logical storage devices
> >>> Cross referencing storage devices with boot environment configurations
> >>> Determining types of file systems supported
> >>> Validating file system requests
> >>> ERROR: cannot check device name <merged> for device path abbreviation
> >>> ERROR: cannot determine if device name <merged> is abbreviated device
> >>> path
> >>> ERROR: cannot create new boot environment using file systems as
> >>> configured
> >>> ERROR: please review all file system configuration options
> >>> ERROR: cannot create new boot environment using options provided
> >>> Is the merged keyword broken, or am I doing this wrong?
> >> What are the mount points in the existing boot environment (vfstab
> >> contents should be sufficient)?
> > vfstab contents on this particular system are not currently available,
> > I'm afraid, but they are those created by this JumpStart profile header:
> > install_type initial_install
> > system_type standalone
> > partitioning explicit
> > filesys mirror:d10 c0t0d0s0 c0t1d0s0 4096 /
> > filesys mirror:d20 c0t0d0s1 c0t1d0s1 4096 swap
> > filesys mirror:d30 c0t0d0s3 c0t1d0s3 8192 /usr
> > filesys mirror:d40 c0t0d0s4 c0t1d0s4 4096 /var
> > # c0t0d0s5 and c0t1d0s5 for Live Upgrade
> > filesys c0t0d0s5 6144
> > filesys c0t1d0s5 6144
> > # These for ZFS.
> > filesys c0t0d0s6 free
> > filesys c0t1d0s6 free
> > metadb c0t0d0s7 count 3 size 8192
> > metadb c0t1d0s7 count 3 size 8192
> >> SPARC or x86?
> > SPARC.
>
> I have a strong suspicion that there's a very basic set of breakage related
> to SVM support in Live Upgrade as we already have a bug with somewhat
> similar symptoms reported (but not yet investigated) with other options and
> SVM:
>
> 6539276 lucreate failed when using detach,attach,preserve on a SVM mirrored
> root
>
> I'd suggest pursuing this through your service contract since it's Solaris
> 10.
Can do; I only mentioned it here as it seemed like an argument parsing
bug to me - it really seems as if the merged keyword is not recognised.
Cheers,
Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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