Rainer Orth wrote: ... > > re-reading my mail, I see that it can be misunderstood: I don't oppose the > move to GRUB on SPARC, although it has its tedious points and the boot > archives introduce several new failure modes not seen before. If I recall > correctly from Jan Setje-Eilers' NewBoot presentation during the S10 > PlatBeta final meeting, the move is motivated both by the need for ZFS boot > on SPARC and a simplification of the kernel <-> OBP interaction. > > I'm only strongly opposed to the switch from DHCP vendor options to the > exclusive use of menu.lst, which is hardly a scalable/centrally > maintainable interface. Btw., per-host sysidcfg files have exactly the > same problem ;-( If we can retain (at least as an option) the ability to > use vendor options to configure the boot/installation even with GRUB, > that's fine with me. >
Thanks for clarifying, Rainer, I kind of thought that was what you were really after. We'll be having some discussions about SPARC in the next week and I'll make sure we include your issue. Dave
