[caiman-discuss] "partition_start_sector" could be set to 0 in AI manifest

[Li Fan]

Hi, William,

I am trying to verify that if partition_start_sector is set to 0, 
automated installation will fail.

I created the following manifest,

      <ai_manifest name="ai_test_manifest">
            <ai_target_device>
                <target_device_name>c7t0d0p0</target_device_name>
                
<target_device_use_solaris_partition>false</target_device_use_solaris_partition>
 

                
<target_device_overwrite_root_zfs_pool>true</target_device_overwrite_root_zfs_pool>
            </ai_target_device>
            <ai_device_partitioning>
                <partition_action>create</partition_action>
                <partition_number>1</partition_number>
                <partition_start_sector>0</partition_start_sector>
                <partition_size>20480</partition_size>
                <partition_type>191</partition_type>
            </ai_device_partitioning>
            <ai_pkg_repo_default_authority>
                <main url="IPS_URL" authname="AUTHNAME"/>
                <mirror url=""/>
            </ai_pkg_repo_default_authority>
            <ai_packages>
            </ai_packages>
     </ai_manifest>


and use the option "-I" of auto-install.
The manifest passed validation. After target initiation was completed, 
following fdisk table was got:

* Id    Act  Bhead  Bsect  Bcyl    Ehead  Esect  Ecyl    Rsect      Numsect
  191   0    0      1      1       254    63     1023    16065      
41926975 

The actual start sector was set to 16065.

I was using osol-0906-110-ai-x86.iso image.



Thanks
--Li Fan