Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 14:41 -0700, Mark Carlson wrote: > > >> The installation process changed a bit in the sense that we need to >> provide iscsi boot target IP address and client's Initiator Node >> Name during the installation to discover the boot device. This is >> accomplished by using bootparams. The following name=val entry is >> required in /etc/bootparams on the install server. >> >> <Client's Name> iscsi-boot=Target_IP:Initiator_Node_Name >> > > whoa! you need *both* DHCP *and* bootparams configured for each client? > Until now, you'd only ever need one or the other, and never both. Since > early stages boot from DHCP, this should be in DHCP too, not > bootparams... > A bootparams parameter is a better approach rather than inventing a new dhcp macro or overloading an exisiting one to provide this information. That is the feedback I had gotten from Solaris NewBoot folks. Please note that we are not using any special dhcp macro to provide client specific information. We use the standard solaris net installation process to do the boot as well. Only thing new is the bootparams parameter.
Sajid > - Bill > >
