Hello everyone, I am trying to port the application called OneSIS which enables a singles system image to be used to manage many diskless clients
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/2009-January/005183.html this link here says that diskless support is one an area of investigation.So may i know whether my decision to port this application oneSIS be correct?If so could anyone please help me out with the following: Now in order to compile oneSIS i need to have a detailed understanding of the boot procedure in opensolaris.Can anyone please help me out with the steps or the files executed. The contents of the menu.lst file indicate that an ISO image 'boot_archive' is mounted which contains the modules for the drivers required for the kernel to prepare the operating system. I tried to mount this image boot_archive under the /tmp directory with the help of a script with the intention of extracting the contents of this large file. What i found out is that there are a number of zipped files packed inside this image.Can anyone tell me whether there is a script or a binary inside this boot_archive which does the unzipping and calls the necessary modules to start loading the drivers etc. i.e is there any binary or executable which takes charge when this boot_archive ISO image is mounted at the time of booting?? One file which i found in the zipped format was genunix under the kernel folder.When i unzipped and extracted the contents i found all sorts of strange symbols and characters on the monitor terminal.Is this the binary that i am looking for?? Can anyone provide me a detailed step by step analysis of the booting procedure in opensolaris?? In anticipation of an early reply, Thanks in advance!! -- T.Sreevani, -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20090623/e910c69b/attachment.html>
