Thanks for the suggestion. I just tried the "reboot -p" but I still get the same result. I also was thinking that this was the wrong menu.lst file and checked the one contained in the x86.microroot but that one is same as the default menu.lst contained in /boot/grub.
-Rich Alok Aggarwal wrote: > Hey Rich, > > Can you try the 'reboot -p' suggestion and reply > back to the alias? > > Alok > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:54:36 -0700 > From: Jack Schwartz <Jack.A.Schwartz at Sun.COM> > To: Alok Aggarwal <Alok.Aggarwal at Sun.COM> > Cc: Dave Miner <Dave.Miner at Sun.COM>, caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org, > Richard.Reinhard at Sun.COM > Subject: Re: [caiman-discuss] changing menu.lst on a usb image > > Hi Alok. > > On 10/08/09 13:47, Alok Aggarwal wrote: >> >> 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. >> > Just a thought: could it be something to do with fast reboot? What > if you try a full reboot using reboot -p? > > Thanks, > Jack >> Alok >> >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >
