The integration of:
PSARC 2012/074 UEFI/GRUB2/Large Disk Boot (UGLDB) (Install phase II):
7104502 Install needs to support UEFI & GPT (phase II)
et al.
and its companion ON integration of:
PSARC/2012/074 UEFI/GRUB2/Large Disk Boot (UGLDB) (phase II)
...
7153604 UEFI/GRUB2/Large Disk Boot Project (phase II)
et al.
constitutes a FLAG DAY for all Solaris install image users, install
infrastructure (i.e. AI install) maintainers, all install project developers
and users who use distro_const(1M) to build Solaris ISO and USB install
images.
Please ALSO refer to the ON-specific flag day for UGLDB Phase II, which
can be
found here:
http://on11update-gate.us.oracle.com/flagdays/pages/20120328181315.html
Required User Action
--------------------
Install infrastructure maintainers who want to provision and manage Solaris
AI images from S11U1 build 14 onward MUST update their system to S11U1 build
13 or later.
Users and install project developers who currently use distro_const(1M) to
build Solaris ISO, USB or pkg(5) AI repo install images MUST ALSO:
- Update the ON components on their build systems to on-nightly March
27th or
later
- Users who want to update to on-nightly from March 29th must first
follow
the ON UGLDB Phase II flag day referenced above.
- Specify on-nightly as the HIGHEST ranked publisher in their AI manifests.
- This step is ONLY required until build 14 is released.
- Sample DC manifest XML IPS software source node:
<source>
<publisher name="on-nightly">
<origin name="http://ipkg.us.oracle.com/internal/solaris11/on/nightly"/>
</publisher>
<publisher name="install-nightly">
<origin name="http://indiana-build.us.oracle.com:10000"/>
</publisher>
<publisher name="solaris">
<origin name="http://ipkg.us.oracle.com/solaris11/dev/"/>
</publisher>
</source>
Summary of changes:
-------------------
- GRUB2 boot loader support
- 64-bit UEFI firmware support
- GPT partitioning & large (>2TiB) disk support
- GPT is now the default partitioning format used on fresh install when the
system is capable of booting from GPT-partitioned disks and either:
- The whole disk is selected for installation, or,
- The selected disk has an existing GPT partition table, or,
- The selected disk has an unreadable or no disk label.
- Automated Install (AI)
- Versions of installadm(1M) in builds prior to build 13 do not support
provisioning and managing Solaris AI ISO (or pkg(5) AI repo) images for
build 14 and onward. The minimum version of installadm(1M) required is
that included in build 13.
- Distribution Constructor
- Versions of distro_const(1M) in builds prior to build 13 do not
support
constructing Solaris ISO and USB images for build 14 and onward. The
minimum version of distro_const(1M) required is that included in
build 13.
- usbgen / usbcopy utilities
- Versions of these utilities prior to build 13 do not support
creating and
copying Solaris USB images for build 14 and onward. The minimum version
required for both utilities is that included in build 13.
- New versions of these utilities can be downloaded from:
https://stbeehive.oracle.com/teamcollab/wiki/GRUB2+and+Large+Disk+Boot:UEFI_USB_BOOT
Support for Solaris 11 FCS / Solaris 11 SRU install infrastructure
maintainers
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- installadm(1M) from UGLDB Phase I will be backported to the SRU
gate and
backpublished to the /release repo so that customers or users running
S11FCS or S11SRU can provision and manage Solaris 11 Update 1 ISO and
pkg(5) repo AI images.
- In the meantime, internal installadm(1M) users running
S11FCS/S11SRU who
want to provision and manage S11U1 build 14 images will need to
update to
build 13, as required above.
Please send any questions to: [email protected].
A FAQ is available here:
https://stbeehive.oracle.com/teamcollab/wiki/GRUB2+and+Large+Disk+Boot:UGLDB_FAQ
(We expect to expand this as people ask questions)
Thanks!
Niall (on behalf of the project team)
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