From the iso image extract the kernel, boot archive, and menu.lst file.
Drop the kernel and boot archive into a place where grub2 can find them
(preserving the path from /platform on), and port the kernel command
line from menu.lst over to the format that grub2 expects.
Make sure you create the zones pool manually on the correct partition.
-Nahum
On 12/02/2015 04:22 AM, Avi Deitcher wrote:
I have an existing server using grub2 to boot into multiple operating
systems (currently 3 CentOS installations and one vmware). I want to
boot SmartOS as well. Unfortunately, the usual "use a burnt CD/DVD" or
"stick in a USB drive" don't really work, as I rarely have physical
access.
I set aside 2 partitions on the physical disk - gpt14 1GB and gpt12
100GB.
I downloaded the smartos-latest.iso, but how can I get grub2 to boot?
1- I cannot burn and install a physical CD/DVD or USB drive
2- grub2 can loopback mount an ISO, but it needs a direct kernel to
boot from there, cannot do chainloader. I tried:
insmod chain
loopback (loop0) (hd0,14)/smartos-latest.iso
set root='loop0'
chainloader +1
no luck.
2- I tried memdisk, same issue, it sees memdisk, but then immediately
reboots the physical machine
3- I tried direct loopback then multiboot/module commands, no valid disk
4- I tried emptying the contents of the iso into the gpt14 partition,
then just tried to 'chainloader +1' it, no valid boot disk found
And so on.
How can I just get the thing to boot without physical access? Yes, I
do have console access of course.
Thanks.
--
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