Hi Jan, On 24.2.2009, at 20:55, Jan Setje-Eilers wrote:
> > Hi, you should really take a slightly different approach. The BIOS > is simply not in the same state when it didn't initiate an eltorito > boot. It's really something they will need to get the firmware to > initiate. Forcing the system to attempt to boot off of cd at that > point is not possible without the disk loader emulating a whole lot > of the code that would have been supplied by the (platform specific) > firmware at that point. Interesting, didn't know that. > > A better approach is probably with a system that supports a virtual > cd/dvd. That would allow the test harness to externally add/remove > cd images and the BIOS would simply be configured to boot from the > cd/dvd if one is present. For instance x4x00 can do this, scripting > it might be a bit interesting, but as long as the switches can be > accessed from the ssh connection it should be possible. That really limits our ability to test commodity hw (imagine notebooks) in an automated fashion. I suppose there's no standardised way of telling the BIOS to boot CD. Do you know who can i talk to about the LOM (webpage/email)? Thanks a lot! Spity > > -jan > > > Mike Pogue wrote: >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Need CD boot from GRUB in automated testing >> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:12:07 +0100 >> From: Jan Spitalnik <Jan.Spitalnik at Sun.COM> >> To: Michael.Pogue at Sun.COM >> CC: Paul Stanley - Sun Microsystems Ireland - Solaris Software <Paul.Stanley >> at Sun.COM >> >, install team bj <installzone-bj at Sun.COM>, angela <Angela.Li at Sun.COM >> > >> Hi Michael, >> I'm a software engineer in Solaris System Test and we're currently >> involved in install automation of OpenSolaris. We hit a problem where >> we'd like to add a GRUB menu entry that would boot off CD/DVD. >> Unfortunately it seems that grub does not support chainloading CDs >> (root (cd0); chainload). We found some outdated documents on the web >> detailing a use of SBM >> (http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~bernhard/grub-chain-cd.html >> ), unfortunately this method does not work on our notebooks since the >> second bootloader can't recognize the media in the tray :-( >> Do you think your team could help us? >> Thank you! >> Spity >
