How to "boot from SAN" from a LUN which belongs to other solaris Machine.

Hi all
I have installed solaris on a lun ( boot from SAN).
Then i had assigned the same os lun to another machine ( the hardware is exactly the same) but now the new machine had detected the os but it reboots and kicksoff.
I have tried changing vfstab setting,
can someone help me??
Thanks in advance.
sidd.

disable IDE RAID and ensure SATA is enabled in BIOS
disconnect any other IDE HDDs before you install Windows to your SATA drive; they can be reconnected again afterwards.
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Hello Evan
Thank you for asking this question. Most common TAC cases that we have seen on Boot-from-SAN failures are due to misconfiguration.
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881312 wrote:
1) In solaris 10 I used to do set up using ufsdump command and the further steps. Now in solaris 11 the command ufsdump cannot be used since the native file system has changed to zfs. With zfs, the analogs to ufsdump and ufsrestore are 'zfs send' and 'zfs receive'. The process for creating an archive of a root pool and restoring it is documented in the ZFS admin guide at http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1448/recover-1.html#scrolltoc. Note that instead of sending it to a file and receiving it from the file, you can use a command like "zfs send -R pool1@snap | zfs recv pool2@snap". Read the doc chapters that I mention for actual zfs send and recv options that may be important, as well as other things you need to do to make the other pool bootable.
2) When I tried to create a boot environment using beadm utility, I am able to create and activate BE in the san(SCSI) disk. But when I activated the new BE, status of new BE is changed to "R" and that of the current BE is still "NR" (which should be N, as per the behaviour of beadm). When I reboot the system it is again getting booted in the same old BE. I tried by setting the boot-device in OBP as the new san disk, which is giving error as "Does not appear to be an executable".I would have expected this to work better than that - but needing to set boot-device in the OBP doesn't surprise me. By any chance, was the pool on the SAN created using the whole disk (e.g. c3t0d0) instead of a slice (ct30d0s0)? Root pools need to be created on a slice.
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sure.
docs.sun.com
emulex cards: www.emulex.com
qlogicL www.glogic.com
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