[oi-dev] Netboot on OpenIndiana

[Till Wegmüller]

Hi Gordon

Yes. The goal is to have a boot_archive that can download the 
CD-Contents via web into RAM. Or make basic recovery tasks when Disk 
id's change etc. Like the original Firefly. but with extensions.


Greetings
Till

On 08.09.2016 17:08, Gordon Ross wrote:
> Just to be clear, you're trying to netboot a mini-root image, right?
> (like the CD/ISO image, Not booting onto an NFS mounted root)
>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Alexander <alexander.r.eremin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey Till,
>> good start!
>>
>>> On 06 Sep 2016, at 20:14, Till Wegmüller <toasterson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> I would like to know what you think about the scripts. How could I improve them? What would you use them for? Does that need some change to the script(e.g additional commandline option)?
>>>
>>
>> Some tips:
>> Would be nice to add dynamic boot_archive size calculation (populate image stage fails for me with “no space left on device”).
>> You probably would like to cleanup kernel and platform directories in boot_archive for  32-bit drivers (or add an option and produce separate 32 and 64 images if you like).
>> SMF repository probably will not be happy and it will try to run some stuff which is not exist in boot_archive, so you will need to modify smf database and may be some scripts.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Alex
>>
>>
>>
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