Our systems are often remotely managed over real or emulated serial ports, i.e. via ILOM "start /SP/console".
For a while I've manually tweaked GRUB menu.lst files to include a boot title for serial consoles, i.e. "-B console=ttya" as well as a "fallback" option to use physical console (no option or "-B console=text"). We prefered to make this clear for support staff, i.e. when the system is locally repaired, they use the physical console options; otherwise the server boots with "ttya" console. Since both modes are useful, it's not interesting to use bootenv.rc (eeprom) to set a specific device as a system console. Since LiveUpgrade interferes a lot into GRUB by regenerating its menus, I got wondering if there is a supported way to change LU's (bootadm's?) templates for the menu, so there would be twice as many options per BE (default=text console and sercon). Is that "supported" and how do I tweak that in the core? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
