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What ZFS boot features are included?

April 26, 2017boot features included ZFs

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What ZFS boot features are included?

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• Both x86 and SPARC systems use the new style of booting with a boot archive, which is a file system image that contains the files required for booting. • While the system is booted for installation, a ramdisk is used for the root file system during the entire installation process, which eliminates the need to be booted from removable media. • If you do an initial install of the SXCE, build 90 release or Live Upgrade from the SXCE, build 90 release, you will be able to boot from a ZFS root file system on both SPARC and x86 systems. • Entries are added to the menu.lst file during the installation or Live Upgrade process to boot ZFS automatically. For example, on an x86 system: title Solaris Express Community Edition szboot_0508 X86 findroot (pool_rpool,0,a) bootfs rpool/ROOT/szboot_0508 kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive For example, on a SPARC system: title snv_90 bootfs rpool/ROOT/snv_90 title snv_90b bootfs rpool/R