Dale Ghent wrote: > Let me clarify myself here - the boot block itself may not always > process any arguments passed to it from the OBP 'boot' command. In the > case of the -Z flag, I'm sure it does because it needs to start > executing the kernel from the right BE. > > But it also passed these flags on to the kernel its booting, so that the > kernel knows it. That's how a 'boot -s' from the OBP eventually > manifests in init(1) knowing that you desire single-user mode, and in > this case the chosen BE, and so on.
Excellent, thanks very much Dale. I'll press on. Eric _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
