Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > 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.
So the need to avoid "boot archive inconsistent" errors may prevent us from booting from anything other than a mirror? - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts
