OpenSolaris

Installing MilaX on a ZFS Filesystem

First of all you need a free Primary Partition. For ZFS installation run the "zfsinstall" script as root. For example, if you have a Solaris partition on c1d0s0, run this command to install MilaX with zfs-boot:

    (root@milax)# zfsinstall c1d0s0

If you’ll see an error messages when the amd64 boot_archive is being creted, do not worry about it.

Sample

Notes

1. The script can only handle already sliced disks (fdisk must be done for the disk before calling the script).
2. You need at least 256 MB RAM for ZFS-installation.
3. The grub menu entry in MilaX 0.3 should be changed to:

    title MilaX 0.3 ZFS    root (hd0,2,g)    bootfs milax/rootfs    kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS,console=text -kd    module$ /platform/i86pc/boot_archive

This entry works for 32 Bit and 64 Bit CPUs.