On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 02:23:51PM -0800, Sundar Yamunachari wrote: > pxe and DHCP is the only way to install OpenSolaris on X86 right now. > What is the environment you have when you are booting PV guests. What > protocols does it support? DHCP controls what boot programs the clients > will get along with IP address. You can tweak DHCP entries and use a > different boot file that is suitable for PV client. Further menu.lst > provides the information about the kernel and install programs needed to > perform the install. You need to have some mechanism to get that > information.
How this works with PV netinstall: we grab the kernel/initrd from the NFS install location and boot that directly. We also pass in boot options that the Solaris installer then picks up so it knows where to install from (you get, for example: -B install_media=netinstall:/latest,host-ip=1.1.1.3,router-ip=... Thus we don't need (but can use) DHCP. So we'd like not to require DHCP, but much more importantly we shouldn't require PXE, since we can pass the required information directly in as boot arguments / devprops regards john
