From: Alex J. Avriette (avriette@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 13 2005 - 11:08:52 EST
So the list of people who responded with help:
Casper Dik
Dale Hirchert
Conor Svensson
Matt Clausen
Lai Wei
Peter van Genmert
Fernando Boveda
First and foremost, Dale was very helpful. After going through just
about everything in the book, he suggested from a Sunsolve document
that I remove the hostname and ip_address directives from the sysidcfg
file. I did so, without any success. Around the same time, both
Fernando and Peter suggested I check the netmasks of the client and
server.
After setting the netmask on the server from /16 to /24, to match the
client's /24, the jumpstart proceeded in an automated fashion, which
is as it should be.
This frustrates me, as all the mounts worked, and the rules were
plainly visible to the client. The sysidcfg was correct and crafted
per the manpage, and Sun's Jumpstart Technology Blueprint book (I've
been using jumpstart for a long time, but this is a new install at a
new network). So it strikes me that everything was configured that it
*could* be working correctly, but that it simply chose not to.
Dale is correct in saying that the hostname and the IP address are
configured during boot, and having them in the sysidcfg file is not
necessary, however, it seems to me that it should be possible to have
a machine come up with one ip, supplied by the bootserver, and to
install the OS with the configuration of another ip. Afterall, the
installed server does not use the bootserver to ascertain its
configuration information. In this case, specifying the hostname and
ip address would be required.
But I digress.
I will say that I am once again impressed by the fabulous volume of
responses I received from Sunmanagers, and most especially so by the
diligence and indeed correctness on the part of Dale, Peter, and
Fernando (which is not to say I do not appreciate any of the rest of
it. I'll take anything after days of pounding on something that
"should work").
Cheers,
alex
I have included the original message below for the spiders.
I have a peculiar jumpstart problem. I've included output of the
client jumpstarting, here:
Rebooting with command: boot net - install
Boot device: /pci@1f,700000/network@2 File and args: - install
1000 Mbps FDX Link up
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
29200 1000 Mbps FDX Link up
SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_117171-07 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
whoami: no domain name
Hardware watchdog enabled
SC unretrieved msg JAN 13 06:09:06 2005 UTC [Host System has Reset]
Configuring /dev and /devices
Using RPC Bootparams for network configuration information.
Skipping interface bge3
Skipping interface bge2
Skipping interface bge1
Configured interface bge0
Searching for configuration file(s)...
Using sysid configuration file
10.2.3.251:/export/jumpstart/config/dc-mvncrmas2/sysidcfg
Search complete.
The system is coming up. Please wait.
Begin system identification...
Starting remote procedure call (RPC) services: sysidns done.
System identification complete.
Generating software table of contents [this may take a few minutes...]
Table of contents complete.
Starting Solaris installation program...
Searching for JumpStart directory...
not found
Warning: Could not find matching rule in rules.ok
Press the return key for an interactive Solaris install program...^C
Executing JumpStart preinstall phase...
Searching for SolStart directory...
Checking rules.ok file...
^Cawk: trying to access field -2
record number 1
/sbin/suninstall: test: argument expected
# ^C
# df -h
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
dc-suntools:/export/jumpstart/install/Solaris_9/Tools/Boot
20G 1.1G 18G 6% /
swap 1.9G 560K 1.9G 1% /tmp
proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc
mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab
/tmp/devices 1.9G 560K 1.9G 1% /devices
/tmp/dev 1.9G 560K 1.9G 1% /dev
10.2.3.251:/export/jumpstart/install
20G 1.1G 18G 6% /cdrom
fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd
10.2.3.251:/export/jumpstart/config/dc-mvncrmas2
20G 1.1G 18G 6% /tmp/sysid_config.141
/usr/sbin/install.d/install_config
20G 1.1G 18G 6% /tmp/_install_config
# cd /cdrom
# ls rules.ok
rules.ok
# ls -la
total 202
drwxr-xr-x 5 root other 512 Jan 12 20:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root other 512 Dec 29 16:45 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 85 Jun 17 2004 .cdtoc
drwxr-xr-x 5 root other 512 Dec 27 07:21 .install
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 32 Dec 27 06:59 .install_config
-> ./Solaris_9/Misc/.install_config
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 462 Dec 27 07:08 .slicemapfile
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 20 Jun 17 2004 .volume.inf
-r--r--r-- 1 root other 22 Dec 27 07:21 .volume.inf.2
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 7052 Jun 17 2004 Copyright
drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 512 Jan 12 15:28 Profiles
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 512 Dec 27 07:20 Solaris_9
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 377 Dec 30 04:23 actual_size
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 383 Jan 12 20:31 addclient.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 55475 Dec 29 15:43 check
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 257 Dec 27 07:21 installer
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 4808 Jan 12 15:27 rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 80 Jan 12 16:17 rules.ok
# cat rules.ok
any - - Profiles/mvno.profile -
# version=2 checksum=3435
# ls -la Profiles/mvno.profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 492 Jan 12 15:28 Profiles/mvno.profile
And so on. On the server, we see:
# showmount -a
dc-mvncrmas2:/export/jumpstart/install
dc-mvncrmas2:/export/jumpstart/install/Configs/dc-mvncrmas2
dc-mvncrmas2:/export/jumpstart/config/dc-mvncrmas2
dc-mvncrmas2:/export/jumpstart/install/Solaris_9/Tools/Boot
# grep dc-mvncrmas2 /etc/bootp*
/etc/bootparams:dc-mvncrmas2
root=dc-suntools:/export/jumpstart/install/Solaris_9/Tools/Boot
install=10.2.3.251:/export/jumpstart/install boottype=:in
sysid_config=10.2.3.251:/export/jumpstart/config/dc-mvncrmas2
install_config=10.2.3.251:/export/jumpstart/install
rootopts=:rsize=32768
It is extremely frustrating, as you can see. The directories all get
mounted, sysidcfg is seen and used, the client box is configured
properly, and for some reason, although rules.ok is sitting right
where it is supposed to be, it is being ignored. I can then proceed
manually through the install, but this means that all the filesystem
configuration I've done in my profiles, and all the users/patches/etc
that get done by finish scripts are going to be done by hand. And I've
got a lot of these to do.
When it says it's searching for the "jumpstart directory", watching
snoop seems to indicate that it is looking for the 'install' parameter
from bootparams. However, that parameter is clearly defined, and even
mounted on the system (/cdrom).
Thanks in advance for any help.
alex
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