installbootblk question

[dandan123]

I mirrored my root drive on my test Ultra 10 Solaris 9 system. After mirroring I was able to boot off the mirror without doing an installbootblk.

Under what circumstances would you need to use this command ?

 

[elgrandeperro]

I believe a newly formatted drive must have the bootblks installed in order to use that drive as a boot drive.

I thought the mkfs code installed it when slice 0/a is created, but I see no indication of that either in
the man pages or stringing the binaries.

gene

 

[Annihilannic]

How did you mirror the disk?

Annihilannic.

 

[dandan123]

Mirrored using SVM using CLI.

metadb to create the state database and replicas
metainit
metaroot
metattach