I did this and specified the boot disk as c5t4d0, which is what it currently is.
The install fails saying it cant find c5t4d0, and a format shows all the controller numbers are different in the miniroot, so there is not c0/c5 etc. How is this resolved? Mr. Ceri Davies - Staff Engineer (Software) Sun Microsystems - Data Management Group Ceri.Davies at Sun.com W:(303) 272-7810 (x77810) H:(303) 442-2795 Typically work from home on Fridays On Jun 18, 2009, at 10:40 AM, Sundar Yamunachari wrote: > Ceri Davies wrote: >> >> How do I specify the boot disk to the ai server and retry the >> install? > You can add a target disk in the AI manifest. Check the AI document > at http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/dev/AIinstall/customai.html. > If you are going to use the manifest for one system, you can change > the default manifest. Otherwise you can add it as a custom manifest. > > - Sundar >> >> The boot disk is c5t4d0 >> c0t0d0 and c1tod0 are not in use, so its probably one of them... >> >> However guess what... On a thumper you can't boot either of these >> >>> Hmm, looks like it did install but the console was redirected to >>> the VGA. >>> I logged in and rebooted without looking around. However I >>> rebooted to the old kernel... >>> >>> So... It looks like it chose one of the other 48 disks to install >>> on and the boot system is still using the old disk! >>> Of course having lost the console, I have no idea what it did. >> >> . How do I specify the boot disk? to the ai server and retry this? >> >>>> I deleted the old macro and re-did the other macros, >>>> and its is somewhat better. I see the OpenSolaris banner and >>>> this this on the screen: >>>> " >>>> Copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. >>>> Use is subject to license terms. >>>> " >>>> >>>> I'm going to the lab to check the console... >>>> >>>> >>>> Mr. Ceri Davies - Staff Engineer (Software) >>>> Sun Microsystems - Data Management Group >>>> Ceri.Davies at Sun.com >>>> W:(303) 272-7810 (x77810) >>>> Typically work from home on Fridays >>>> >>>> On Jun 17, 2009, at 6:32 PM, Sundar Yamunachari wrote: >>>> >>>>> Ceri, >>>>> >>>>> I couldn't find anything wrong with your install server or >>>>> dhcp server. Can you run a snoop on the install server to >>>>> capture the client traffic while the client is booting? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Sundar >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20090618/5e9cae9a/attachment.html>
