[16160] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun 8.2.8: 'bootdevice' set wrong on athena 8.2 installed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Aug 14 10:10:43 1998
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:10:42 -0400 (EDT)
To: mbarker@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[16159] in Athena Bugs"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
So, thinking about this some more, I think what is happening here is
Sun ships the machines with JumpStart! installed on the 'b' partition,
and the machine autoconfigured to boot to that partition.
When you do a regular Solaris install, one of the things it can do
(and I don't remember what the default is, but they may have changed it
anyhow) is to set the boot-device variable to whatever partition you
declare to be the bootable one.
So with a normal Solaris install, you'd boot off the JumpStart! server
and the installation would change the boot-device NVRAM variable
as part of the installation, and you'd never see this problem.
This suggests that our install process might consider doing the same thing.
Someone should verify that my recollection of the Solaris install process
is accurate, however.
(This also doesn't explain why Sun doesn't just put the JumpStart! stub
on the a partition, like they've done on other Sun machines. Since I haven't
seen an athena U10 before the install got run on it, it's harder for me to
guess.)
--jhawk
