Is there any way to boot of from zfs disk "work around" ??
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Malahat
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:17:03PM -0500, Malahat Qureshi wrote:
> Is there any way to boot of from zfs disk "work around" ??
Yes, see
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/tabriz?entry=are_you_ready_to_rumble
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 07:25:55PM -0700, Matthew Ahrens wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:17:03PM -0500, Malahat Qureshi wrote:
> > Is there any way to boot of from zfs disk "work around" ??
>
> Yes, see
> http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/tabriz?entry=are_you_ready_to_rumble
I followed those d
Brian Hechinger wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 07:25:55PM -0700, Matthew Ahrens wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:17:03PM -0500, Malahat Qureshi wrote:
Is there any way to boot of from zfs disk "work around" ??
Yes, see
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/tabriz?entry=are_you_ready_to_rumble
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:47:48AM -0600, Lori Alt wrote:
>
> While the official release of zfs-boot won't be out
> until Update 4 at least, we're working right now on
> getting enough pieces available through OpenSolaris
> so that users can put together a boot CD/DVD/image
> that will directly in
Brian Hechinger wrote:
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:47:48AM -0600, Lori Alt wrote:
While the official release of zfs-boot won't be out
until Update 4 at least, we're working right now on
getting enough pieces available through OpenSolaris
so that users can put together a boot CD/DVD/image
that wi
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 02:26:24PM -0600, Lori Alt wrote:
> >What about Express?
> Probably not any time soon. If it makes U4,
> I think that would make it available in Express late
> this year.
Is there a specific Nevada build you are going to target? I'd love to
start testing this as soon as
Brian Hechinger wrote:
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 02:26:24PM -0600, Lori Alt wrote:
What about Express?
Probably not any time soon. If it makes U4,
I think that would make it available in Express late
this year.
Is there a specific Nevada build you are going to target? I'd love to
start tes
On 15/08/06, Lori Alt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Brian Hechinger wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 02:26:24PM -0600, Lori Alt wrote:
>
>>>What about Express?
>>
>>Probably not any time soon. If it makes U4,
>>I think that would make it available in Express late
>>this year.
>
>
> Is there a speci
"Dick Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As an aside, is there a general method to generate bootable
> opensolaris DVDs? The only way I know of getting opensolaris on
> is installing sxcr and then BFUing on top.
A year ago, I did publish a toolkit to create bootable SchilliX CDs/DVDs.
Would thi
On 16/08/06, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Dick Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As an aside, is there a general method to generate bootable
> opensolaris DVDs? The only way I know of getting opensolaris on
> is installing sxcr and then BFUing on top.
A year ago, I did publish
Dick Davies wrote:
On 15/08/06, Lori Alt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Brian Hechinger wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 02:26:24PM -0600, Lori Alt wrote:
>
>>>What about Express?
>>
>>Probably not any time soon. If it makes U4,
>>I think that would make it available in Express late
>>this year
On 17/08/06, Lori Alt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dick Davies wrote:
> That's excellent news Lori, thanks to everyone who's working
> on this. Are you planning to use a single pool,
> or an 'os pool/application pool' split?
Thus I think of the most important split as the "os pool/data pool"
Dick Davies wrote:
On 17/08/06, Lori Alt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dick Davies wrote:
> That's excellent news Lori, thanks to everyone who's working
> on this. Are you planning to use a single pool,
> or an 'os pool/application pool' split?
Thus I think of the most important split as t
On 18/08/06, Lori Alt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No, zfs boot will be supported on both x86 and sparc. Sparc's
OBP, and various x86 BIOS's both have restrictions on the devices
that can be accessed at boot time, so we need to limit the
devices in a root pool on both architectures.
Gotcha. I w
Lori Alt wrote:
No, zfs boot will be supported on both x86 and sparc. Sparc's
OBP, and various x86 BIOS's both have restrictions on the devices
that can be accessed at boot time, so we need to limit the
devices in a root pool on both architectures.
Hi Lori.
Can you expand a bit on the above?
Torrey McMahon wrote:
Lori Alt wrote:
No, zfs boot will be supported on both x86 and sparc. Sparc's
OBP, and various x86 BIOS's both have restrictions on the devices
that can be accessed at boot time, so we need to limit the
devices in a root pool on both architectures.
Hi Lori.
Can you e
Torrey McMahon wrote:
Lori Alt wrote:
No, zfs boot will be supported on both x86 and sparc. Sparc's
OBP, and various x86 BIOS's both have restrictions on the devices
that can be accessed at boot time, so we need to limit the
devices in a root pool on both architectures.
Hi Lori.
Can you
Lori said:
> The limitation is mainly about the *number* of disks
> that can be accessed at one time.
> ...
> But with straight mirroring, there's no such problem
> because any disk in the mirror can supply all of the
> disk blocks needed to boot.
Does that mean that these restrictions will go awa
Bennett, Steve wrote:
Lori said:
The limitation is mainly about the *number* of disks
that can be accessed at one time.
...
But with straight mirroring, there's no such problem
because any disk in the mirror can supply all of the
disk blocks needed to boot.
Does that mean that these restrict
Tabriz Leman wrote:
Torrey McMahon wrote:
Lori Alt wrote:
No, zfs boot will be supported on both x86 and sparc. Sparc's
OBP, and various x86 BIOS's both have restrictions on the devices
that can be accessed at boot time, so we need to limit the
devices in a root pool on both architectures.
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