[illumos-Developer] Net booting illumos?

[Bryan Cantrill]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at damore.org> wrote:
> I've filed a bug on this (Bryan you don't seem to have a login on our
> site so I can't add you to the watch list for it):
>
> https://www.illumos.org/issues/349

Thanks for filing that; I created an account for myself and am now
watching this issue.

> The fix is super simple, and so far it seems to work but I have not
> verified it with netboot.  It will take me some time to configure a
> netboot system (don't ask.)

No sweat.  You can also verify this by adding an /etc/system directive
to forceload kcf, I imagine.

> Would Joyent like to have a test binary with the above fix?  I can
> trivially send one out (or you can apply the above change to your own
> copy of the tree if you prefer.)

We're still chipping away towards a live image (and intend to release
the software we're using to create it, BTW), but we will integrate
this fix into our tree.  Thanks for the prompt help on this!

        - Bryan