Bill Shannon writes:
> So if I create a new archive for the old boot environment I'm running
> in, it will only apply to that old boot environment. Since the kernel
> in that old boot environment hasn't been changed, why would I need to
> update the archive?
Because crucial things sometimes chang
Bill Shannon writes:
> I saw another message about the "bootadm update-archive" command and
> thought maybe that might be related. Can someone explain how that
> command relates to boot environments?
It doesn't really relate to them.
The archive is part of the GRUB booting process. GRUB is able
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Lori Alt wrote:
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>> Sure; you can mount up an alternate boot environment and update its
>> archive by using "-R" to point at the root for that environment.
>>
>> I think you might be barking up the wrong tree, though. The archive
>> has nothing at all to do with the storage of the GRUB menu o
James Carlson wrote:
>> I think the errors I'm getting from grub about the broken boot
>> environment are low level filesystem errors, and aren't related
>> to the boot archive, so this probably isn't related to my original
>> problem, but still I'm trying to understand how all these pieces
>> fit
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James Carlson wrote:
> Bill Shannon writes:
>> I saw another message about the "bootadm update-archive" command and
>> thought maybe that might be related. Can someone explain how that
>> command relates to boot environments?
>
> It doesn't really relate to them.
>
> The archive is part of the G
This isn't exactly encouraging either...
$ pfexec /usr/sbin/bootadm list-menu
The location for the active GRUB menu is: /boot/grub/menu.lst
bootadm: no matching entry found
$ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
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Bill Shannon wrote:
> I've got the same problem, which I described in this other thread:
> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=81928&tstart=0
> I'm not using compression at all.
>
> I *really* need a way to recover this system without reinstalling.
> Right now I'm running on an ol
