Lee Razo wrote:
An OS upgrade pretty much only affects data that is written on hard disk. When you do a "download", it takes the current boot image from /etc/boot and copies it into the boot block on the hard disk. The "floppy-boot?" environment variable is actually set at the PROM level, and the software has no access to that data [...]
I agree; this is certainly the way I've always understood it. However, no one can remember setting floppy-boot? on the filer in question, and it certainly wasn't on during the last time it was upgraded. So, please pardon me for indulging in magical thinking, but my "it's-in- the-software" hypothesis was the only way I could see floppy-boot? having come to be turned on.
Anyway, I'm happy about the RFE. If the "floppy boot?" prompt could show up in a more synchronous fashion (i.e., not immediately followed by lots of unrelated output), that would certainly be less confusing.
Brian