Hi Rao,
Rao Shoaib wrote: > I am looking at a Xen install issue on osol-0906-111b2. Could you please provide more information about * type of installation you use (LiveCD/AI) * HVM or PV ? * what kind of issue are you encountering ? > However if I replace the x86.microroot with the one that is shipped > with osol-0906-ai-x86 the problem goes away. The size of the two > microroots are different. > > ls -al: > > 37819325 osol-0906-111b2.x86.microroot > 60052689 osol-0906-ai-x86.microroot > > Sum: > 50385 73866 osol-0906-111b2.x86.microroot > 43055 117291 osol-0906-ai-x86.microroot > > Why is there a difference b/w the two microroots osol-0906-ai-x86.microroot is used for Automated Installer osol-0906-111b2.x86.microroot is used by LiveCD They are not the same as they need to contain different stuff supporting different boot process (AI boots from network and downloads additional archives from there - those are available on media in LiveCD case). > and can I get a description on what the changes are so I can decide if > the issue of networking interface not being present at boot time that > I am debugging has really been addressed in > osol-0906-ai-x86.x86.microroot. I am thinking if the issue might be related to the following bug: 6850 xVM guests fail to AI install due to missing /reconfigure or system/reconfigure SMF property This one was filed against AI and fix went into AI microroot only. Thank you, Jan > BTW if I replace the osol-0906-ai-x86 with the one in > osol-0906-111b2. VirtualBox pxe install that use to succeed starts > failing so there is some change that addresses the problem that I am > after. > > Thanks, > > Rao. > >
