Hi Alok.
On 10/08/09 13:47, Alok Aggarwal wrote:
>
> On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Dave Miner wrote:
>
>> Alok Aggarwal wrote:
>>> As part of automated test development for bootable AI,
>>> Rich has been trying to modify the menu.lst file on a
>>> usb AI image.
>>>
>>> If he mounts up the usb image and edits
>>> /boot/grub/menu.lst and boots the modified image, he
>>> sees the changes take effect.
>>>
>>> However, if he boots off of the usb image and edits
>>> /.cdrom/boot/grub/menu.lst and reboots, he doesn't
>>> see the changes take effect.
>>>
>>> What is missing in the latter case?
>>>
>>
>> The UFS file system is mounted with nologging in the latter case, so
>> perhaps it's a failure to sync the file system before rebooting.
>
> The weird thing in this case is that on next reboot,
> the updated menu.lst is seen on the file system. So, I think the
> updates make it out to the file system.
>
> They just aren't visible in the initial GRUB menu screen on reboot.
>
Just a thought: could it be something to do with fast reboot? What if
you try a full reboot using reboot -p?
Thanks,
Jack
> Alok
>
> _______________________________________________
> caiman-discuss mailing list
> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
