Hi Joe, What about just creating 1 grub entry with some sort of flag to indicate to boot up the test env, which includes enabling ssh and skipping all the language questions? Being automated, I configure that having 4 entries won't help them, since choosing any 1 of them won't allow them to automatically boot into the desktop.
I looked at bug 6431, usr/src/cmd/distro_const/utils/grub_setup.py shouldn't be the place to put these extra entries, regardless how many we eventually decide. The extra entries should be specified in the manifest used for building the images. Take a look at the <grub_menu_modifications> section of the manifest used for building the Live CDs. I will also update the bug with this comment. Thanks, --Karen Joseph J VLcek wrote: > I would like ideas on how best to structure the live media grub menu > to provide the user both the ability to enable ssh, and select the > defaults for the language prompts. > > This is to address bug: > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6431 > > This bug was filed by the QA team to enable easier remote access to > help automate testing. > > To address the "enable ssh" issue Dave Miner had told me to add a new > grub entry to allow the user to enable ssh. > > The bug has since been updated with a request to also automatically > select the language defaults (keyboard layout and desktop language). > > Dave Miner had suggested the QA folks investigate using expect to > automate the language selection. After investigation it turns out the > QA folks can not use expect. > > So they need to be able to enable ssh while selecting the language > defaults and perhaps without selecting the language defaults. > > This would create 4 new grub entires. > > One idea I had was to provide an undocumented grub flag to force the > selection of the default language options and require the QA folks to > manually edit the grub entry and pass this option. > > But that sounds a bit awkward to me. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, Joe > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
