On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Karen Tung <Karen.Tung at sun.com> wrote:
> Jean and I are delighted to report that we are finally > able to produce an AI image that can boot successfully > into live-fs-root, and got to the line where it > says "Couldn't determine source of automated install image". > We felt that the image is good enough for the AI team to use it > for their testing/development. > > This image is created entirely by our modifications to the DC. > The only thing that you still need to hack is that you need to > install the boot blocks by hand. That means, you need > to run the installboot command on the bootroot of the image > manually. We will get that figured out and fixed next week. > You can find the image at: > > /net/line3-v480.sfbay/rpool/dc/ai-dec5/media/ai-dec5.iso > > In case you are interested, the manifest we used to create > this image is at: > > /net/line3-v480.sfbay/rpool/dc/ai_x86_image_sparc.xml > > This sounds very interesting, but I don't have a clue what it is. The fact that you talk a lot about booting, and have sent this to caiman-discuss gives some hints. More hints in the responses... but please explain to me (briefly and simply) what is AI and what is DC ? Is that a capital i or a lower-case L? A number of people are excited about the value of this work. I am personally excited about the fact that people are contributing to Open Solaris even when I don't understand what they do :-) Thanx, _J -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke My blog: http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20081211/3c3095c1/attachment.html>
