On 02/11/11 12:16 AM, Jon Aimone wrote:
Hi,
Good luck on figuring out which disks are internal... without detailed
I/O bus/fabric topologies for every supported platform. I don't believe
WWIDs guarantee that, or I've missed something (again).
That's an issue we are discussing in the background with the driver
teams. Having properties exported on the devices that give us topology
info would be very helpful.
For SPARC how about the path(s) listed in boot-device by the OBP?
For x86 is it possible to determine which disk the system would boot
from by default?
Yes, we usually can do this, and AI already does so if no criteria are
specified.
Dave
Dermot McCluskey perorated, on or about 02/10/11 03:58 AM:
All (especially Dave and Sanjay),
One piece of functionality the TargetController class I am writing
will provide is to allow an initial disk (or disks) to be selected for
the install. In the interactive installers, this will be the disk
initially
highlighted; in AI it will be the disk(s) selected if nothing is
specified in the manifest.
However, I am not sure of exactly what criteria to use. So, my
questions are:
- is there one set of criteria that will be suitable for all install
clients?
- what are those criteria? It seems to be some combination of:
- 1st discovered disk with a Solaris2 partition
- 1st discovered disk with the "boot_disk" keyword
- 1st discovered disk that is big enough
- 1st discovered disk that is physically internal to the machine
(using WWIDs)
- 1st discovered disk
- etc
Can you give some guidance on this?
- Dermot
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