Hi Juergen,
Thanks a ton for the help, yes all i had to do
was recompile my driver for 32-bit and specify that as
the kernel module for the pkg_drv command,then when i
selected option 5 , it detected/installed my driver to
miniroot and booted of it, was able to detect my
target drive too!!!
Only question now is ..how do i get both 32-bit and
64-bit modules onto the pkg? because the OS CD that i
am using is for x86-64?
Thanks
Som
--- Juergen Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Som,
>
> > Im attempting to install/boot Solaris OS
> on
> > a SCSI target drive that would be discovered using
> my
> > iSCSI HBA driver.
> > To do this, all i need to do (pls correct me if i
> am
> > wrong) is to create a driver update floppy and add
> the
> > driver updates(using option 5) in the installation
> > process at the beginning so my driver will be
> loaded
> > and my SCSI target/LUN will be reported as one of
> the
> > disks on which OS can be installed
> >
> > Here is what i did for pkg_drv
> >
> > /opt/SUNWpkgd/bin/pkg_drv -i '"pci1234,5678"' -c
> scsi
> > -r 1.0 -d "My Dummy family of HBA Controllers" -D
> "My
> > iSCSI HBA" -t pci -V 'VERSION=0.1' mydriver
> >
> >
> > (NOTE: using dummy values above)
> >
> > The package was succesfully created and using 'dd'
> i
> > got the /tmp/737/ITU.3(output diskette image) onto
> the
> > floppy .. is that enough?
>
> "dd if={pcfs_image} of=/dev/rdiskette bs=18k" should
> be
> enough, if that file contains an msdos fat
> filesystem image.
>
> Try this as a sanity check for the ITU floppy image:
>
> # lofiadm -a /tmp/737/ITU.3 /dev/lofi/99
>
> # mount -r -F pcfs /dev/lofi/99 /mnt
>
> # ls -l /mnt
> total 1
> drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 512 Feb 6
> 2008 DU
>
> # ls -l /mnt/DU
> total 3
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Feb 6
> 2008 label.vol
> drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 512 Feb 6
> 2008 sol_210
> drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 512 Feb 6
> 2008 sol_211
>
> # ls -l /mnt/DU/sol_210
> total 1
> drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 512 Feb 6
> 2008 i86pc
>
> # ls -l /mnt/DU/sol_210/i86pc
> total 5
> drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 512 Feb 6
> 2008 Docs
> drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 512 Feb 6
> 2008 Patches
> drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1024 Feb 6
> 2008 Product
> drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 512 Feb 6
> 2008 Tools
>
> # ls -l /mnt/DU/sol_210/i86pc/Tools
> total 9
> drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1024 Feb 6
> 2008 Boot
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3323 Feb 6
> 2008 install.sh
>
> # ls -l /mnt/DU/sol_210/i86pc/Tools/install.sh
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3323 Feb 6
> 2008
> /mnt/DU/sol_210/i86pc/Tools/install.sh
>
>
>
> > Then i inserted the Solaris 10 CD ROM and
> proceeded
> > installation by choosing option 5 (which is to add
> > driver updates) . The installation program seems
> to
> > detect/read the floppy and i get a message saying
> > 'Extracting software from floppy'
>
> Is there any indication that the driver package for
> your iscsi hardware
> is added to the system?
>
> Does your iscsi driver package contain some kind of
> copyright file that
> is displayed at package installation time? Do you
> see that copyright
> file displayed on the console when you use "option 5
> (add driver
> updates)" ?
>
>
> Did you make sure that your driver package contains
> both 32- and 64-bit
> kernel modules? During installation a 32-bit kernel
> is running, so we
> need a 32-bit driver module.
>
>
> > But after the rest of the installation proceeds ,
> find
> > that my driver is not installed at all and
> therefore
> > NO hard disks are found
> >
> > Any ideas pls as to what could be the problem?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Som
> >
> >
> > --- Juergen Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > RamKishoreV wrote:
> > >
> > > > Javen Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > You need ITU image. I assume you are working
> on
> > > X86. Please try the
> > > > > below link:
> > > > >
> > >
> http://www.tools.de/opensource/solaris/itu/newboot/
> > > >
> > > > I looked into the ITU directory. It doesn't
> > > contain any scsi device
> > > > specific driver disks. Do we have to do
> anything
> > > different for scsi
> > > > specific driver disks.
> > >
> > > I don't think anything special is needed for
> scsi
> > > itu drivers.
> > >
> > > We need a standard package that installs the new
> > > driver to the
> > > ramdisk root filesystem, and a postinstall
> script in
> > > the package
> > > that registers the new driver with the kernel
> > > (add_drv ...).
> > >
> > > scsi drivers do register themself in
> > > /etc/driver_classes, so you
> > > probably need to use the "-c scsi" option for
> > > add_drv...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > One thing that might be broken (I havn't
> verified
> > > this yet): I think my
> > > "install.sh" ITU install script needs a small
> update
> > > for current
> > > opensolaris, now that the multiboot binary is
> gone
> > > and grub directly
> > > loads the kernel (the new directboot feature,
> added
> > > when xen / xvm was
> > > integrated). I think this breaks the
> is_newboot()
> > > function that I'm
> > > using in "install.sh":
> > >
> > > #
> > > # Detect a "newboot" target OS.
> > > #
> > > is_newboot() {
> > > [ -f $basedir/platform/i86pc/multiboot ]
> ||
> > > return 1
> > > [ -d $basedir/boot/grub ] || return 1
> > > return 0
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > > I did not understand bef_name and
> real_modepath
>
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