[OpenIndiana-discuss] installgrub still required when building mirrored rpool ?

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:15:22AM +0100, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Seems a bit trivial with all the talk of Solaris11 express, oracle
> > etc.
> > 
> > But, just did a first install of OI. Didn't get the "warning" message
> > to
> > to run installgrub after running the zpool attach command to create
> > a mirrored rpool.
> > Last opensol install was 134. Is installgrub legacy ?
> 
> It isn't. zpool attach won't touch the grub bits.
> 
> > Just destroyed the system by trying to install xvm-gui ! How come
> > solaris 11 express still has Xvm support and OI doesn't ?
> 
> IIRC xvm was reported to be removed from s11 some time back, due to Oracle focusing on their own virtualisation platform. Why it's still there, I guess only Oracle can tell you (and they probably don't)...
> 

IIRC Oracle didn't have time (yet) to completely remove it from the first release of Sol11 Express.

-- Pasi