Alok Aggarwal wrote: > Hi Ethan, > > On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Ethan Quach wrote: > >> Alok, >> >> 3.1 >> >> For the boot choices for Sparc, I would really rather see >> us reserve "boot cdrom" to not automatically boot AI at >> all. I know this is AI-specific media, but at some point, if >> our medias merge, changing the user expectation of this >> interface becomes extremely difficult. > > That is a good point. Perhaps "boot cdrom - prompt" would > be better?
IMO, an additional specifier to some base that already indicates "automated install" would make sense. So something like boot cdrom - install prompt boot cdrom - install standard ~or perhaps single token ~ boot cdrom - install_prompt boot cdrom - install_standard > > What should the behavior be if a user uttered "boot cdrom"? I think the AI services shouldn't be enabled in this case. Maybe the system just boots to a login prompt? > >> 3.2 >> >> Where do network-based AI boot and media-based AI >> boot converge? In other words, when an AI client boots, >> where does the knowledge in differences in boot-style end? > > The two converge after the service to locate a manifest > to use has found a manifest to be used. The auto-installer > service will subsequently invoke the installer in the same > way regardless of media type. There's not much of a description in 3.4, but the separated "manifest-locater" service shouldn't have to be media-based vs. networked-based boot aware either. Is this correct? In general, I think the convergence should happen as early as possible. thanks, -ethan
