Jack Schwartz wrote: > Hi Sanjay. >>> >>> Next, I needed to update to 108. In doing pkg image-update, I >>> encountered bug 5221, a beadm issue which has been fixed (but was >>> not in 106). A blank /rpool/boot/menu.lst file was created and the >>> image-update worked. Thanks to Evan Layton for his help! >>> >> Ok, I am confused. How is /rpool/boot/menu.lst (which is specific to >> GRUB) an issue for sparc boots. > My understanding is that SPARC uses a similar boot architecture to > X86. While there isn't grub, per se, SPARC has a menu file similar to > x86's rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst, called rpool/boot/menu.lst. beadm > puts similar info into this file as it does grub's menu.lst for X86. > > I've not seen this file display on bootup; I don't think it is made > visible, but it is there. Perhaps Evan can shed more light on how it > is used.
I know Evan added a skeleton menu.lst file on SPARC. > > Thanks, > Jack >> >> -Sanjay >> >>> The system is now running OpenSolaris 108 and I have turned it over >>> to Niveditha! >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jack >>> _______________________________________________ >>> caiman-discuss mailing list >>> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
