Thank you very much for those links which did give me an idea about the booting procedure for Solaris systems.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!!:( In anticipation of an early reply, Thanks in advance, 2009/6/22 Jan Damborsky <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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20090623/b66706ed/attachment.html>
