On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 10:01 -0600, Lori Alt wrote:
> Really, all we
> need to get to the point of mounting root on x86 now is:
>
> /boot/grub/menu.lst
> /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix
> /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive
>
> Soon, SPARC will work similarly.
Not exactly.
The agreed spec for sparc newboot has it reading editable files out of
the real root filesystem. With a little bit of work, x86 newboot should
be able to do this as well, forever banishing "boot archive
inconsistent" errors.
- Bill
