Thank you Mary.  That was my problem.  Sorry I missed/forgot the flag 
day notice.

Thanks,
Tyson

mary ding wrote:
> Tyson:
>
> Ethan Quach send out a flag date message about using AI in osol_132. 
> You will need to use installadm create-service -b "install=true" or 
> installadm create-client -b "install=true"
>
>
>
> If you don't use the automated installer on x86 systems, ignore
> this message.  With the fixes for the following bugs:
>
> changeset:   707:2274294287c2
> tag:         tip
> user:        Ethan Quach <Ethan.Quach at sun.com>
> date:        Wed Jan 27 16:15:59 2010 -0800
> summary:
>        14082 bootarg for booting automated installs over the network
>        13766 AI debug mode can only be activated in conjunction with 
> service discovery
>        4069 The create-service setup doesn't work if a client is 
> booted using a tip line
>
>
> In build 132, the default behavior of booting x86 systems over the
> network into AI images has changed.  The default grub menu entry
> will no longer start a hands-free automated install.  The second entry
> must be selected to kick off the hands-free install.  The first entry 
> will
> boot into the AI boot image and present console-login, but automated
> installation will not start.
>
> The following table gives the information on what the changes for this
> flag day would be and how it impacts your AI server.
>
>
> AI server bld     AI image bld    Required action
> ---------------------   ---------------------- 
> ----------------------------
> pre 132            pre 132           No change.
>
>
> pre 132            132 or later      Clients booting this image will not
>                                                   automatically boot 
> into a hands-
>                                                   free automated 
> install.  The work-
>                                                   around is manual. 
> You must hand
>                                                   edit the menu.lst 
> file associated with
>                                                   the service and add 
> a "install=true"
>                                                   property to the -B 
> args.  If you do
>                                                   specific 
> 'create-client' commands for
>                                                   your x86 clients, 
> you can instead just
>                                                   use the -b option to 
> explicitly add the
>                                                   "install=true" flag 
> into its menu.  Or
>                                                   add it to the menu 
> entry manually at
>                                                   boot time.
>
>                                          installadm create-client ... 
> -b install=true ...
>
>
> 132 or later     pre 132            No change.
>
>
> 132 or later     132 or later      Clients booting this image will not
>                                                  automatically boot 
> into a hands-
>                                                  free automated 
> install.  This is the
>                                                  desired new changed 
> behavior.  The
>                                                  second grub menu 
> option must be
>                                                  chosen to kick off 
> the hands-free
>                                                  install. 
> Alternatively, you can use the
>                                                  -b option with 
> 'create-service' or
>                                                  'create-client' to 
> explicitly add the
>                                                  "install=true" flag 
> into the menu,
>                                                  which will cause the 
> default entry to
>                                                  do a hands-free install.
>
>                                          installadm create-service ... 
> -b install=true ...
>                                          installadm create-client ... 
> -b install=true ...
>
>
> Thanks,
> -ethan
>
> Tyson Ainsworth wrote:
>> I am having an issue getting b132 to install with AI.  While 
>> attempting the install my client loads the b132 mini-root but then 
>> bombs out saying:
>>
>> Auto-installer disabled. Enable the auto-installer service
>> by running the following command:
>>    svcadm enable svc:/application/auto-installer:default
>>
>> When trying to enable it the auto-installer services I get:
>>
>> # svcadm enable auto-installer
>> Couldn't find manifest file at </tmp/ai_combined_manifest.xml>
>> Feb  5 04:14:12 opensolaris svc.startd[7]: 
>> application/auto-installer:default failed fatally: transitioned to 
>> maintenance (see 'svcs -xv' for details)
>>
>>
>> For my setup I the AI server is not the same as the DHCP/PXE server.  
>> So I copy from the AI server's /tftpboot directory the 
>> I86PC.OpenSolaris-2 directory to the PXE servers /tftpboot 
>> directory.  Is there something else that needs to be copied over?  
>> This has worked successfully for me up until now.  Any help would 
>> greatly be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tyson
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