Hi Sreevani,
Sreevani Tippana wrote: > Thank you very much for those links which did give me an idea about > the booting procedure for Solaris systems. You are welcome. > I have yet another doubt. > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/2009-January/005183.html > > as suggested by the link above,since booting diskless clients is an > area of ongoing investigation please let me know whether i should be > able to port the application called oneSIS which is all about allowing > multiple diskless clients to boot from the same single system image.I > am confused now!!:( Since I am not familiar with the current strategy for diskless support, I will let rather Dave or Sanjay comment on this. Thank you, Jan > In anticipation of an early reply, > Thanks in advance, > > > 2009/6/22 Jan Damborsky <Jan.Damborsky at sun.com > <mailto:Jan.Damborsky at sun.com>> > > Hi Sreevani, > > > > Sreevani Tippana wrote: > > hello everyone, > I am trying to port the application called OneSIS which > enables a singles system image to be used to manage many > diskless clients. > Now in order to compile this i need to have a detailed > understanding of the boot procedure in opensolaris.Can anyone > please help me out with the steps or the files executed. > > The contents of the menu.lst file indicate that an ISO image > 'boot_archive' is mounted which contains the modules for the > drivers required for the kernel to prepare the operating system. > I tried to mount this image boot_archive under the /tmp > directory with the help of a script with the intention of > extracting the contents of this large file. > What i found out is that there are a number of zipped files > packed inside this image.Can anyone tell me whether there is a > script or a binary inside this boot_archive which does the > unzipping and calls the necessary modules to start loading the > drivers etc. i.e is there any binary or executable which takes > charge when this boot_archive ISO image is mounted at the time > of booting?? > One file which i found in the zipped format was genunix under > the kernel folder.When i unzipped and extracted the contents i > found all sorts of strange symbols and characters on the > monitor terminal.Is this the binary that i am looking for?? > Can anyone provide me a detailed step by step analysis of the > booting procedure in opensolaris?? > > > In order to obtain general idea how boot process works > in OpenSolaris, I might recommend to start by taking > a look at boot(1M) and kernel(1M) man pages. > > Also following document might help you to clarify this: > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1985 > > Especially chapters > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1985/ggjcp?a=view > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1985/hbsysboot-76719?a=view > > Thank you, > Jan > > > > > -- > T.Sreevani, > 605119,CSE(3rd yr), > Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, > Patia,Bhubaneswar-751024
