[illumos-Developer] Net booting illumos?

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 16:46 -0700, Bryan Cantrill wrote:
> 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.

Thanks!

> 
> > 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!

I'd like confirmation that this fixes the problem for you.  I need that
final confirmation before I commit (reasonably the advocate I've
selected is insisting on that. :-)

	- Garrett