>> [b][b]SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118855-14 64-bit
>> Copyright 1983-2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>> Use is subject to license terms.
>>
>> WARNING - The following files in / differ from the boot archive:
>>     /etc/rtc_config
>
>You seem to detect a very sore point in the new grub based boot.
>I thought that this could not happen in a "stable" environment
>as I did previously have this kind of problems on a development
>machine (typically after I did test a new driver binary).


The original implementation, unfortunately, did suffer from this
in stable environments; specifically, the rtc_config file and path_to_inst
files can be updated and require the boot-archive to be recreated.

rtc_config is updated when the timezones change; path_to_inst when a device
(including USB or firewire) is plugged in)


My workaround for my embedded system is simple: set the boot-archive 
verification script to :true:

svccfg -s boot-archive setprop start/exec = :true


This will prevent such startup failures which should not be treated as
fatal.

Note that later patches make the boot-archive code more careful about what
changes to fail on and which not.

Casper

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