You need to mount installed root-fs and copy the driver to it. After that you need to:
1. add driver to installed system # add_driver -b /path/to/root-fs/mountpoint <additional parameters> 2. update boot_archive # bootadm update-archive -R /path/to/root-fs/mountpoint Thanks. 2012/8/25 Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) < opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com> > On a 64bit intel (amd64) system ... **** > > I have an HBA. I have a driver for the HBA. I can boot the live cd, and > I can load the driver with a "sudo add_drv blah blah" command. At this > point, the storage becomes available, and I can install the OS. But I'd > like to be able to boot from it... ;-)**** > > ** ** > > I'm not very familiar with the solaris boot process, and I'm getting lost > in all the different versions of documentation. I'd like to know if I'm > going the right direction...**** > > ** ** > > I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) the boot-time drivers are loaded via > the boot_archive file. This is the solaris analog of linux initrd. It's > a filesystem that gets loaded into ram before the / filesystem is > mounted, and discarded from ram after the / filesystem is mounted. **** > > ** ** > > So I *think* I need to modify the boot_archive, to include my driver in ( > boot_archive)/kernel/drv/amd64**** > > And I think I need to probably generate some sort of conf file ... that > will contain all the parameters I specified on the "sudo add_drv" command > line... **** > > ** ** > > But I can't seem to figure out where to put some conf file (if indeed I > need to do that)**** > > ** ** > > There's this "bootadm update-archive" command, that I'm sure fits into > the puzzle somewhere... But all the man pages just say "Updates the boot > archive, if required." Not exactly the most informative man page... I > don't know what it's trying to update from, or to, or based on what > criteria.**** > > ** ** > > Do I just load the driver once into the running kernel, and then run the > bootadm update-archive command? Does it fetch the currently running > config, and save it to the boot_archive file?**** > > ** ** > > If I'm not mistaken, the disk blocks of the kernel and the boot archive > get hard-coded into grub, right? Do I need to installgrub after doing > the above?**** > > ** ** > > Thanks for any help...**** > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org >
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