On Wed Mar 21 12:39:16 2012, Niall Power wrote: > On 21/03/2012 23:19, Darren Kenny wrote: >> On Wed Mar 21 11:05:53 2012, Niall Power wrote: >>> Hi Dermot, >>> >>> Thanks for reviewing. >>> >>> On 21/03/2012 22:04, Dermot McCluskey wrote: >>>> Hi Niall, >>>> >>>> The following files do >>>> "from bootmgmt.bootinfo import SystemFirmware": >>>> ./cmd/auto-install/checkpoints/target_selection.py >>>> ./cmd/text-install/disk_selection.py >>>> but do not get the bypass. So, I assume the version >>>> of bootmgmt is not that important for them? >>> Yes, because these files belong to AI and Text Install clients respectively >>> so they will be part of a pre-assembled image and not something you >>> would expect to be installed onto a physical system. >> Actually that is not true - AI certainly is installed on a physical >> system since >> it is used to install zones. > > Thanks for the clarification Darren. I overlooked this fact. But it does > not impact us because the import is > is used to check the system firmware and raise an exception if the > physical Disk blocksize is incompatible > (due to a PCFS bug). This has no impact on AI as I understand it since > physical Disk target selection is not > done for zone installation, only for global zone. >
True, there is no physical disk processing in AI for zones, it only processes the zpool/zfs dataset it's being installed to IIRC. Thanks, Darren. _______________________________________________ caiman-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
