The Solaris 9 version we had on ROJ was too ancient to support the new V440, so when it tried to boot in Jumpstart, it failed. Updating the Solaris version in the Jumpstart area has always been a pain; something about the script seemed to always bomb out on ROJ, requiring editing of the script and running it from somewhere other than the CD. Fortunately, Doug Hughes clued me in to the fact that all I had to do was copy the Solaris_9 directory contents from the DVD into the expected place in the Jumpstart area, and all would be good.
Next up, though, is making my volume manager Jumpstart script work with four disks. It’s always assumed two disks for a simple mirroring setup, but the V440 has four, and I’d like to add those in to the mix at Jumpstart time, too. I think I got it working now — now that I’ve removed a couple of lines of stale code that were causing a test bug and leaving the system in a pretty sad state. To test it all tomorrow.
Posted by Rowan Littell at February 8, 2006 05:07 PM