[syslinux:pathbased] menu docs: document MENU SAVE caveat with RAID-1
syslinux-bot for Ferenc Wagner
wferi at niif.hu
Mon Jun 7 15:04:04 PDT 2010
Commit-ID: cd508a8c968deda3b91a6c46ba1a1572753f3951
Gitweb: http://syslinux.zytor.com/commit/cd508a8c968deda3b91a6c46ba1a1572753f3951
Author: Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu>
AuthorDate: Mon, 31 May 2010 18:40:24 +0200
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at linux.intel.com>
CommitDate: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 14:54:45 -0700
menu docs: document MENU SAVE caveat with RAID-1
The usual RAID-1 ADV constraint...
Signed-off-by: Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at linux.intel.com>
---
doc/menu.txt | 7 ++++++-
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/menu.txt b/doc/menu.txt
index c912c1d..af93558 100644
--- a/doc/menu.txt
+++ b/doc/menu.txt
@@ -309,7 +309,12 @@ MENU NOSAVE
On the other hand, it handles changes in the configuration
file gracefully.
- The MENU SAVE information can be cleared with
+ NOTE: In software RAID-1 setups MENU SAVE only stores the
+ default label on the actual boot disk. This may lead to
+ inconsistent reads from the array, or unexpectedly change the
+ default label after array resynchronization or disk failure.
+
+ The MENU SAVE information can be fully cleared with
"extlinux --reset-adv <bootdir>".
A MENU SAVE or MENU NOSAVE at the top of a (sub)menu affects
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