The lucreate command is part of a suite of commands that make up the Live Upgrade feature of the Solaris Operating environment.
Example:
# lucreate -n newsystem-new -c solaris10 -m /:/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0:ufs -m -:/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s1:swap \-m /var:/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s5:ufs -m /usr:/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s6:ufs -m /opt:/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s7:ufs \
-l /var/log/lucreate.err -o /var/log/lucreate.log
BE: Boot Environment
-n: The name of the BE to be created. BE must be unique [...]
Read Full Post »
Liveupgrade is a great feature in Solaris which reduces the downtime patching, upgrades and providing a quick rollback mechanism. It is very interesting to see Sun’s Factory Boot Disk layout.
Check the following link for detail
http://wikis.sun.com/display/BigAdmin/BootDiskLayout
Read Full Post »
Posted in Live Upgrade on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you boot from a Solstice DiskSuiteTM or a SolarisTM Volume Manager mirrored root, or a Veritas encapsulated root, the lucreate command might be unable to determine the boot device. The following error message is displayed.
WARNING: Unable to determine root device by accessing boot device settings directly.
ERROR: Unable to determine root device for current [...]
Read Full Post »