On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Dave Miner wrote: > Alok Aggarwal wrote: >> As part of automated test development for bootable AI, >> Rich has been trying to modify the menu.lst file on a >> usb AI image. >> >> If he mounts up the usb image and edits >> /boot/grub/menu.lst and boots the modified image, he >> sees the changes take effect. >> >> However, if he boots off of the usb image and edits >> /.cdrom/boot/grub/menu.lst and reboots, he doesn't >> see the changes take effect. >> >> What is missing in the latter case? >> > > The UFS file system is mounted with nologging in the latter case, so perhaps > it's a failure to sync the file system before rebooting.
The weird thing in this case is that on next reboot, the updated menu.lst is seen on the file system. So, I think the updates make it out to the file system. They just aren't visible in the initial GRUB menu screen on reboot. Alok
