Re: Booting x86.miniroot (standalone RAM) to a specific run-level (via menu.lst.01MAC parameters) ...

Darren Dunham <ddunham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Noel Milton Vega <nmvega@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
(1) This one boots with only a small subset of the smf services
"online". The logical and physical
network smf services are not online so, of course, a dhcp based
ifconfig will not work.
And trying to start them manually doesn't work because an error
indicating that the SMF
back-end is read-only, and therefore cannot be modified. (I have a
question on this coming
up).

Odd. I'm guessing this is a property of the miniroot you're trying to
boot into. Normally that would be equivalent to a full boot because
you're not specifying a boot mode.

The install miniroot is not an ordinary miniroot; it will want to
do install and will only setup networking fairly late.

Casper
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