Hi Alok, Some of the proposed solutions can be "hands on" evaluated in VA Live-CD, which I design for easy building OpenSolaris 2096 JeOS.
See mote in thread: AI Client on Live-CD - 10 OpenSolaris 200906 VA Live-CD Main Design Concepts I personally think, based on my last month experience with AI Client, then using very limited AI network boot based environment in VMC, where we need Live-CD media with good "drop to shell" environment will significantly limit users ability to track and debug issues. I will consider this option as only a very first starting point in "Proof-Of-Concept" process, which need to be replaced later. Nice day Rudolf Kutina (VirtualGuru) > On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Karen Tung wrote: > > >>> How would it work? >>> ------------------ >>> >>> DC would be changed such that all x86 images created >>> are bootable. The choices of a media based boot, network >>> based boot (no AI) and network based boot with AI would be provided in >>> the GRUB menu. >>> >> All x86 based images, including the current AI image, is already bootable. >> > > The current AI image is bootable by itself, only > as far as booting into the microroot. For further > bringup, the image counts on a server being available > from where to fetch solaris.zlib/solarismisc.zlib. > > So, really the current AI image isn't bootable when > booted standalone. > > >>> Media based boot would be the default selection. At the time the AI image >>> is setup on the AI server using installadm, network based boot (no AI) >>> would be made the default selection. >>> If a hands off installation is intended, the "default" >>> parameter in the GRUB menu.lst on the AI server can be tweaked to >>> indicate network based boot with AI as the default [1]. >>> >> I think that when DC creates the image, only 1 option should be added to >> the GRUB menu. >> The option is to boot from media. >> When the image is used for setting up the GRUB menu, >> the installadm command need to alter the GRUB menu anyway. >> At that time, it can add the 2 other network boot entries. >> I think this is more clear, because if we include the 2 GRUB >> network boot entries when we build the AI image, and people just >> boot the image from media and choose the 2 network entries, >> things won't work, and it will be more confusing. >> > > That is a good point. Thinking through it some > more, the error case would be quite displeasing. > > I will modify the proposal account for this suggestion. > > Alok > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss > > > End of caiman-discuss Digest, Vol 30, Issue 22 > ********************************************** >
