Deployment tasks 29
Booting Solaris from GRUB
This section provides an overview of and describes the options for booting Solaris from GRUB.
Synopsis
kernel
pathtomultiboot
kerneltoboot
[
options
]
module
pathtominiroot
•
pathtomultiboot
—Path to the multiboot program. This path is relative to the boot media, either
CD or network (TFTP). When booting from CD, this must be a full path.
•
pathtominiroot
—Path to the miniroot. This path is relative to the boot media, either CD or
network (TFTP). When booting from CD, this must be a full path.
•
kerneltoboot
—Path to the kernel that multiboot should load. Unlike the other paths, this path is
relative to the miniroot (multiboot loads the kernel from the miniroot, not the boot media). When
booting a miniroot, the value of
kerneltoboot
is usually kernel/unix.
Options
The
options
take this form:
[- install] [-B
param1
=
value1
[,
param2
=
value2
[...]]]
The - install option must be specified for noninteractive JumpStart installations.
The following parameters can be specified following -B:
• install_media—Specifies an NFS mount path to the installation media root directory. For
example, “10.10.10.10:/export/home/install.” This path must map to the same directory
that was passed to setup_install_server(1M) when the media was copied to disk.
• install_config—Specifies an NFS mount path to a JumpStart configuration directory. For
example, a parameter value of 10.10.10.10:/jumpstart instructs the installer to use the rules
and profiles found in /jumpstart on an NFS server with IP address 10.10.10.10.
• sysid_config—Specifies an NFS mount path to a directory containing the sysidcfg(4) file to use
(which must itself be named sysidcfg). For example, a parameter value of
10.10.10.10:/jumpstart instructs the installer to use the file /jumpstart/sysidcfg from the
NFS server with IP address 10.10.10.10.
HPQnetstrategy
The HPQnetstrategy package, when installed in the miniroot, is used to direct the Solaris installation to
configure the network even when the miniroot is not booted from the network, such as when booting from
an ISO image or when using Rapid Deployment Pack.
To instruct HPQnetstrategy on the desired network configuration, specify a netstrategy boot
parameter in the same manner as the installation parameters described previously. Parameter usage takes
the following form:
netstrategy=
if
:
strategy
•
if
—The network interface that must be used, such as bnx0. The
if
interface can also be the value
any to instruct HPQnetstrategy to search for a network interface that can be configured using
DHCP.
•
strategy
—The configuration method that must be used. The only supported value for
strategy
is
dhcp.
