[OpenIndiana-discuss] Not what I expected updating from 151_9 to latest hipster

[Harry Putnam]

Nikola M <minikola at gmail.com> writes:

> On 03/23/17 01:37 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I was hoping to keep it kind of simple and just try to mirror rpool
>> with a pair of smallish discs.  So rpool will just be Siamese twins.
>>
>> Since the discs are 160 GB which will a good bit more than rpool needs
>> I may keep a few un-important bits of data there too.
>
> That might be the best ,
> you do fresh install on one of the new disks,
> then prtvtoc the second one as described and zpool attach the second
> one to get mirrorer rpool
>
> Since full-disk installs use GPT formatted disks, you won't be hit
> with 'MBR' problems after update.
> But you can do 'bootadm install-bootloader -Mfv' after update, to get
> newest illumos loader installed.

Good deal, that was my hope