BE and loader integration

[Victor Sudakov]

Trond Endrestøl wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I know I can select a BE (boot environment) to boot from the loader
> > > > menu. However, I'm at a loss what the options of the loader menu
> > > > 
> > > > 1. Active:
> > > > 2. bootfs:
> > > > 
> > > > are supposed to indicate, and what is supposed to happen when I press
> > > > "1" or "2".
> > > > 
> > > > Pressing 4, 5 etc selects a BE, that is fine.
> > > 
> > > After selecting your BE, exit this submenu by hitting 1.
> > 
> > Does the label "Active:" even make sense? Should it not be "Exit" or something?
> > 
> > And what is supposed to happen if I hit 2 ?
> 
> Then you select what the bootfs property suggests and exit to the main 
> menu.

The current pool's bootfs property? I see.

BTW the boot menu BE selection does not work properly anyway. I've found some
combinations of BEs and loader options which lead to an unbootable
system: http://admin.sibptus.ru/~vas/bad_be.png
Maybe it's sysutils/beadm's fault incorrectly creating BEs, whatever.

 

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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