Bart Smaalders wrote:
>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. >> >> > >So the need to avoid "boot archive inconsistent" errors may prevent >us from booting from anything other than a mirror? > > It might make it more difficult, but I don't think it necessarily prevents it. Lori -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20070823/9d7f989b/attachment.html>
