Thank you Karen. Having a test env is a good idea and would likely be an acceptable solution for the test team.
but What if others want to either enable ssh or select the default language or the other way around or both? I guess what I am asking is: do folks feel it is not likely that anyone other than the test team would want to toggle ssh and have automatic default language select? If only the test team would benefit from these then: 1- I could create a "test environment" grub entry to both enable ssh and automatically select the defaults for the language questions. 2- What should the title of this grub entry be? Thanks, Joe Karen Tung wrote: > 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 >
