[OpenIndiana-discuss] Creating .volsetid without mkisofs

[Peter Tribble]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Rainer Heilke <rheilke at dragonhearth.com>wrote:

> I've found the beginnings of my problems (thanks, Stefan). The 151a8
> LiveCD did not lay down a /.volsetid on my root filesystem (rpool). The one
> on the LiveCD doesn't work. So, how do I create one (with the right value)
> from scratch? I don't think mkisofs will work.
>

What are you trying to do?

All that .volsetid is used for is to ensure that when you boot from
the Live CD, it can find the actual CD that matches the booted
image. (Just in case you have multiple CDs, it can identify the right
one.) The file isn't relevant to an installed system.

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