Hi Evan,

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Evan Layton wrote:

> This look pretty good, just some minor comments and questions...
>
> In section 3.1 it states that the user will be presented with
> these three choices from the grub menu:
> * Boot from media and invoke AI with a specified manifest
> * Boot from media and invoke AI with a default manifest
> * Boot from hard disk
>
> It then states that the first one will be the default. If this is
> the case then the user is expected to provide a location for a
> manifest in the default choice. Doesn't it make more sense to have
> the second choice with the default manifest as the default choice
> in the grub menu?

The problem with having the second choice as the default is -
if a user inserts this bootable media into a cd/dvd drive
and then walks away for some reason, we end up maliciously
overwriting his disk.

> 3.1.1 maybe it should be stated here that better progress
> observability is outside the scope of this project?

Sure I can state that.

> 3.3 The second paragraph is a bit awkward.
> maybe something more like:
> Since this project aims to add more functionality to this service,
> it will endeavor to split up the live-fs-root service into two
> disparate services where each service's behavior is based on the
> type of install media (network or cdrom/dvd/usb) being used.
>
> 3.4 second paragraph
> These two functional pieces will - one...

Rephrased both these sections.

> Also if we're doing a CD based install here do we want to installer
> to eject the CD in addition to shuting down the system so that on
> reboot it doesn't default to going back into the installer?

The ability to eject a mounted CD is currently an RFE -

http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1115

The choice of (grub) defaults should prevent the system
from going back to installer post-reboot.

Thanks for the feedback!
Alok

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