<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">I swear I tried the sysidcfg on the wiki page before anything else and it didn't work, but it works now. So whatever it was must have been operator error!<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Jim Klimov <jimklimov@cos.ru><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> oi-dev@openindiana.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, June 17, 2013 4:54 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [oi-dev] sysidcfg<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>
On 2013-06-17 03:08, G B wrote:<br>> Interesting, because no matter what I do it will not work and I have to<br>> login to the console.<br><br>Basically, the sysidcfg software stack relies on presence of a number<br>of answers on its questions to system configuration - interactive or prepared. If it asks for only some replies, then your sysidcfg file<br>is incomplete to its expectations (maybe new "questions" were added,<br>or some data needs more clarification now). If it asks for all answers<br>on the console, than likely something is wrong with the mechanism or<br>the filenames it is fed.<br><br>See here for an example which worked for me:<br>http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Building+in+zones<br><br>Also, when some parts are preconfigured otherwise (i.e. DNS-related<br>files are baked in) they may be marked in a state-file, so these<br>questions are not asked again, i.e.:<br><br># cat /etc/.sysIDtool.state<br>1 # System
previously configured?<br>1 # Bootparams succeeded?<br>1 # System is on a network?<br>1 # Extended network information gathered?<br>1 # Autobinder succeeded?<br>1 # Network has subnets?<br>1 # root password prompted for?<br>1 # locale and term prompted for?<br>1 # security policy in place<br>1 # NFSv4 domain configured<br>0 # Auto Registration Configured<br>vt100<br><br>See if it exists in your template zone, and what it contains.<br>Maybe just removing it might help (use the /etc/sysidcfg file).<br><br>Also, to log in to a non-configured zone's OS (before the root<br>account's password and access rights are defined) you can try<br>to use "zlogin -S zonename" from the
GZ.<br><br>HTH,<br>//Jim<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>oi-dev mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:oi-dev@openindiana.org" href="mailto:oi-dev@openindiana.org">oi-dev@openindiana.org</a><br>http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev<br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>