Re: Jumpstarting server with 'unsupported' SCSI controller?

From: Morten Green Hermansen (mortengh_at_fanitas.com)
Date: 02/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 07:47:26 +0100

> Does the card have OpenFirmware support so that you can boot from it?
> Does it appear in 'probe-scsi-all' output? Without that, you can't boot
> from it, regardless of what software is where.

Yes. There is full OpenBoot support. At the 'ok' prompt I can do
probe-scsi-all and see the disk.
When I just installed the hardware scsi card and booted Solaris
(reconfiguration boot) and did a 'prtconf | grep scsi' I just got: 

---
scsi <driver not attached>
scsi <driver not attached>
---
After installing the driver I was asked to reboot. Then I got:
---
scsi, instance #0
scsi, instance #1
---
'format' was not able to see the disk until the driver was installed.
> Very possibly.  Use pkgadd -R /path/to/boot/image to add the package to
> the jumpstart image that is run by the client.  It might be something
> like /jumpstart/Solaris_8/Tools/Boot.
> When done, the image on the machine at jumpstart time should have
> visibility to the scsi disks, so it can install a boot image on it.
So. By adding the package in the way described above the install client will
'install' the package at installation time and therefore be able to see the
controller and the disk? Because it seems like the disks cannot be accessed
at all without the working driver.
> You'll still need to add the package to the OS on the client at finish
> time.
Is that in the jumpstart finish script? That must be the lates time?!
Thanks!
- Morten

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