From cd508a8c968deda3b91a6c46ba1a1572753f3951 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ferenc Wagner Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 18:40:24 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] menu docs: document MENU SAVE caveat with RAID-1 The usual RAID-1 ADV constraint... Signed-off-by: Ferenc Wagner Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- doc/menu.txt | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 ". A MENU SAVE or MENU NOSAVE at the top of a (sub)menu affects -- 2.7.4