Chris's Wiki :: blog/solaris/OmniOSUpgradesViaReinstalls Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/OmniOSUpgradesViaReinstalls?atomcommentsDWiki2017-03-28T15:12:15ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/solaris/OmniOSUpgradesViaReinstalls.By Chris Siebenmann on /blog/solaris/OmniOSUpgradesViaReinstallstag:CSpace:blog/solaris/OmniOSUpgradesViaReinstalls:07b2ca86f95fb006c7ffb89b9c816cb98842b721Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>Looking back I phrased part of my entry badly. I think we want to
migrate to the BSD Loader in general, basically for the same reasons
that OmniOS and Illumos are; GRUB isn't really maintained any more.
If we're going to migrate, it's easier to do that through a reinstall
on new disks, since that cleanly 'preserves' the ability to boot our
r151014 setup through GRUB (since the old disks have both GRUB and
r151014).</p>
<p>(GRUB versus the BSD Loader would also probably be another point
of difference between updated and fresh-installed systems if we
tried to stay with GRUB, since I assume fresh-installed new systems
will use the BSD Loader.)</p>
</div>2017-03-28T15:12:15ZBy Dan McD. on /blog/solaris/OmniOSUpgradesViaReinstallstag:CSpace:blog/solaris/OmniOSUpgradesViaReinstalls:eab775693b6f6df464a5819f00988446ca6ed822Dan McD.<div class="wikitext"><p>If you'd just read the "I WANT TO STICK WITH GRUB" section, you'd see it's really easy. Just put BE_HAS_GRUB=true in the updated BE's /etc/default/be.</p>
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