Tycho Nightingale wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Jean McCormack wrote: > >> Please review the following fixes >> >> >> CR: >> 5887 DC needs to install boot blocks to sparc bootroot >> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=5887 >> >> 5888 /platform/[sun4u|sun4v]/wanboot is needed in AI image >> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=5888 >> >> Webrev: >> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~jeanm/slim_5888_5887/ > > The path to the bootblock with an embedded 'sun4u' may break on > 'sun4v' systems. It's probably best to use: > > /usr/platform/`uname -m`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk There's actually 2 reasons not to. 1) You could be building on a different architecture than what you will run on. Thus uname -m might return a different platform anyway. 2) I was told (2nd hand) that Jan recommended using sun4u. Since he's the boot guy I figured this was correct.
Jean > > Tycho
