Hi Uwe, could you please provide more information about what ISO image did you pass to 'installadm create-service' command ?
I am asking, since the content of I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/ directory indicates you probably used LiveCD ISO image instead of AI one. Those two are different and not interchangeable. You could obtain AI ISO images from following locations: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/downloads http://www.genunix.org/ Then the kernel should be located in I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix Thank you, Jan Uwe Bartels wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running a fresh opensolaris snv_125 on a virtualbox. > I trying to get through the autoinstall process as shown in > http://blogs.sun.com/chrisarmes/entry/configuring_an_auto_install_client > > When I'm starting the machine which is to be installed i get > - the dhcp address > - the tftp file menu.lst.0906x86 > - but then the message: Multiboot kernel must be loaded before modules > > in another thared with the same subject i found that by just recreating the > image everything goes fine. But this did not happen in my case. > > A find over the directory shows me that there is really no kernel not even > that directory: > uwe at opensolaris11ai:/tftpboot# find I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/ > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/ > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/solaris.xpm > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/solaris > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/solaris/filelist.safe > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/solaris/bin > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/solaris/bin/update_grub > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/solaris/bin/create_diskmap > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/solaris/bin/extract_boot_filelist > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/solaris/bin/mbr > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/solaris/bin/root_archive > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/solaris/bin/symdef > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/solaris/bin/create_ramdisk > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/solaris/filelist.ramdisk > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/solaris/bootenv.rc > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/solaris/devicedb > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/solaris/devicedb/master > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/x86.microroot > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/acpi > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/acpi/tables > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/amd64 > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/amd64/x86.microroot > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/fat_stage1_5 > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/stage2_eltorito > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/ffs_stage1_5 > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/capability > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/stage1 > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/jfs_stage1_5 > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/stage2 > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/ufs_stage1_5 > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/minix_stage1_5 > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/install_menu > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/pxegrub > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5 > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/xfs_stage1_5 > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/splash.xpm.gz > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/ufs2_stage1_5 > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/nbgrub > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/iso9660_stage1_5 > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/zfs_stage1_5 > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/vstafs_stage1_5 > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/default > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/bin > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/bin/grub > I86PC.OpenSolaris-4/grub/menu.lst > > So how can I convince installadm to write that kernel? > > Best Regards, > Uwe
