Hi,I should also not that I set the boot-device to point to the drive, and the installer still complains about no boot disk available....
These drives are blank from the factory - never used before as install targets. I have formatted one of them to make certain they work, but I have MANY to do.... manually formatting them is no a practical option.
Jon Aimone perorated, on or about 03/31/11 02:00 PM:
Hi,I tried leaving it out the drive selection, but not certain how I get the installer to use the whole disk without first formatting the drive manually. (Or did I miss something in the docs again...)Yes, this related to SAS drives. These are T3-1B systems. I've run into CR 7013976 Solaris 11 Express 2010.11 autoinstaller fails to install on 32GB SSDs with default VTOCBut when I try the workaround in the manifest it complains about a missing entry to select the disk.Ethan Quach perorated, on or about 03/23/11 10:13 AM:Hi Jon, A couple question... On 03/22/11 11:01, Jon Aimone wrote:Hi,Is it valid to use wildcards in the name field when using devpath as the target device for AI installation?I have situation where I have many machines with single SAS boot drives. There are no other disks on any of these machines.For these particular machines, if they only have one drive, can't you just leave the disk selection out of the manifest altogether, and allow AI to select that one disk by default?If I can use a wild card for the device path, then I can specify something like this "/pci@0/pci@400/SAS@0/disk@*" in the manifest and have one manifest work for all machines.Also wondering if this particular problem is more related to the fact that these are SAS drives, and that they don't have fixed naming. If this is the case, we have other plans in the works to address the issue.-ethan_______________________________________________ caiman-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss_______________________________________________ caiman-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss-- ~~~~~~~~\o/~~~~~~~~ Cheers, Jon. {-%] ======== If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten. - Anon. -------- The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan (February 6, 1911 -- June 5, 2004) -------- When someone asks you, "Penny for your thoughts," and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny? - G. Carlin (May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008) _______________________________________________ caiman-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
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