Jan Damborsky wrote: > Hi Rao, > > > Rao Shoaib wrote: >> I am looking at a Xen install issue on osol-0906-111b2. > > Could you please provide more information about sure. > > * type of installation you use (LiveCD/AI) I am trying to do network install and initially I was using osol-0906-111b2.x86 -- Based on your comments it seems osol-0906-111b2.x86 was never designed to do a network install. > * HVM or PV ? I tried both and both failed. > * what kind of issue are you encountering ? When the kernel boots the network interface is not configured. My debugging shows that it is not discovered when the kernel boots. I am not sure why it not in the device tree at boot time. > >> 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). Thanks. It seems like there is no problem here and the bug (6807622) should be closed as operator error. > >> 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 I looked at that bug and did create the /etc/reconfigure on the microroot by first mounting it. So there is something else that has changed in the osol-0906-ai-x86. Based on your comment above that the AI install downloads archives over the network the size of micro-root on osol-0906-ai-x86 should be smaller than the one in osol-0906-111b2.x86 but its the other way around.
If I can somehow get into the debugger at the early stage of boot I think I can get some more useful infromation and that is why I am asking why do I not get a gui doing a virt-install and where is the grub entry stored. Rao. > > 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. >> >>
