When a x86 client is boot up we need to move cursor down to "Oracle Solaris 11.2 Automated Install" with our finger in 30 seconds to start automatic installation,
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Can we set default choice to "Oracle Solaris 11.2 Automated Install" and shorten timeout value to 5 seconds so that it will be sent to AI automatically and quickly?
In AI, the grub menu was copied from
/etc/netboot/i386-11_2/grub.cfg (i386-11_2 is the install service name)
to
/etc/netboot/grub.cfg.01<mac address without : >
For example, grub menu for a host with mac address 08:00:27:82:9D:49 is /etc/netboot/grub.cfg.01080027829D49, and this file is copied from /etc/netboot/i386-11_2/grub.cfg.
To set timeout value just change "set timeout=30" to "set timeout=5", and to set default choice to "Oracle Solaris 11.2 Automated Install", just add a line "set default=1" in bottom of the file (there's no such line originally). Quite easy, isn't it?
Actually you can make this change in either of etc/netboot/i386-11_2/grub.cfg or /etc/netboot/grub.cfg.01080027829D49. To make a permanent change you should edit the former so that you will not have to edit files for each client in the future.
As a special note, above procedure applies to Solaris 11.1 and 11.2. However if you still have Solaris 11 11/11 to be installed, the file is /etc/netboot/i386-11_2011_11/menu.lst and the file for a particular client is
/etc/netboot/menu.lst.01<mac address without : >
Corresponding settings in menu.lst are "default 0" and "timeout 30". Change them to "default 1" and "timeout 5" if you think this helps.
Can we set default choice to "Oracle Solaris 11.2 Automated Install" and shorten timeout value to 5 seconds so that it will be sent to AI automatically and quickly?
In AI, the grub menu was copied from
/etc/netboot/i386-11_2/grub.cfg (i386-11_2 is the install service name)
to
/etc/netboot/grub.cfg.01<mac address without : >
For example, grub menu for a host with mac address 08:00:27:82:9D:49 is /etc/netboot/grub.cfg.01080027829D49, and this file is copied from /etc/netboot/i386-11_2/grub.cfg.
To set timeout value just change "set timeout=30" to "set timeout=5", and to set default choice to "Oracle Solaris 11.2 Automated Install", just add a line "set default=1" in bottom of the file (there's no such line originally). Quite easy, isn't it?
Actually you can make this change in either of etc/netboot/i386-11_2/grub.cfg or /etc/netboot/grub.cfg.01080027829D49. To make a permanent change you should edit the former so that you will not have to edit files for each client in the future.
As a special note, above procedure applies to Solaris 11.1 and 11.2. However if you still have Solaris 11 11/11 to be installed, the file is /etc/netboot/i386-11_2011_11/menu.lst and the file for a particular client is
/etc/netboot/menu.lst.01<mac address without : >
Corresponding settings in menu.lst are "default 0" and "timeout 30". Change them to "default 1" and "timeout 5" if you think this helps.