Joel Lord wrote: > > I have an interesting conundrum with jumpstart, to which I need a > resolution AND hope I may influence development of the new installation > tools to make this work more... usefully. > > Take a simplified environment of a jumpstart server and a new server to > be installed. There are 4 networks, both servers are on all 4 - > production, backup, provisioning, and admin. In order to fully automate > the configuration through jumpstart, there are network clauses for all 4 > interfaces in the sysidcfg, with the production network flagged as > 'primary' and having a default route set. The jumpstart is configured > to happen on the provisioning network, and when kicked off does indeed > tftp and start via the provisioning network. > > When the sysidcfg file is read, however, the interface marked 'primary' > is brought up and all others brought down. Since the provisioning > network is not routed, the install then hangs trying to mount the > installation image.
If its netbooted, it's not supposed be bringing any interfaces down; it's suppose to just configure the installed OS with whatever specifications are given in the sysidcfg file. However, there's a bug in how sysidtool makes that determination -- it looks for the "/" file system to be NFS mounted. With newboot (which isn't so new anymore), the "/" is now on local ramdisk, not over the network, so it makes a wrong decision. Please feel free to file a bugster bug on this, I don't see any yet that fit this exact bill. -ethan > > Is there any particular reason the sysidcfg file is used on the spot, > rather than just being used to configure the OS image being installed? > I've specified which network I want the installation to run on via 'boot > net1 -install' but the installation seems to think it is smarter than I > am. Unfortunately, it fails because of that. This has finally > explained for me why the N1 provisioning tools I tried to make work ages > ago don't work when installed as recommended - with their own > provisioning network. > > --- > Joel Lord > Manager of Research and Development, Information Systems > Garnet River LLC > www.garnetriver.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
