Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
>On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 10:01 -0600, Lori Alt wrote: > > >>Really, all we >>need to get to the point of mounting root on x86 now is: >> >> /boot/grub/menu.lst >> /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix >> /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive >> >>Soon, SPARC will work similarly. >> >> > >Not exactly. > >The agreed spec for sparc newboot has it reading editable files out of >the real root filesystem. With a little bit of work, x86 newboot should >be able to do this as well, forever banishing "boot archive >inconsistent" errors. > > > True, I'd forgotten about that. But I think we can get RAID-Z booting to work anyway. We're kicking around a few ideas. Lori -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20070823/e8869428/attachment.html>
