Bootadm: managing a diskless client [PSARC/2008/213]

[Matthew Jacob]

>
> We can't yet communicate with the machine, of course, and there's
> nothing about the root filesystem layout that tells us the platform
> implementation (sun4u or sun4v).  Bootadm builds per-platform archives
> as we've found otherwise boot time suffers.  
Side note: I've noticed that the time you save in boot time you (seem 
to, at least for OpenSolaris) pay back later in reboot time.