System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

SPARC: Options That Support Booting From an Oracle Solaris ZFS Root File System

On the SPARC platform, the following two boot options are new:

The list of BEs that are displayed when you use the -L option on a device that has a ZFS boot loader reflect the menu.lst entries that are available on that particular system. Along with the list of available BEs, instructions for selecting a BE and using the -Z option to boot the system are also provided. The dataset specified by the bootfs value for the menu item is used for all subsequent files that are read by the booter, for example, the boot archive and various configuration files that are located in the /etc directory. This dataset is then mounted as the root file system.

For step-by-step instructions, see Booting From a Specified ZFS Root File System on a SPARC Based System.