Monday, July 27, 2015

Building own failsafe image using firefly scripts

I've put some distro-const scripts to the github repo at https://github.com/alhazred/firefly for anyone who wants to build their own illumos-based failsafe image. Current stuff was tested on OmniOS but also should work on OpenIndiana. Anyway the code can be simplified, so any pull-requests and customization are welcome.

How to determine PXE mac address when booting illumos via PXELinux/iPXE

In illumos, if you need to determine the interface which was used for booting via PXE then it's possible to use "boot-mac" pro...