[OmniOS-discuss] Serving multiple OmniOS releases from one Kayak server

[Jorge Schrauwen]

For those interested, I worked around it by using iPXE, I just load 
different kernel + bootarchive for each release. Although it is a bit 
flaky sometimes.



On 2014-10-21 20:55, Eric Sproul wrote:
> Hi,
> Just wanted to share something I came up with a couple months ago:
> http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/KayakMultiRelease
> 
> At Circonus we run LTS on our infrastructure, but need to install
> machines at different releases for build automation and testing.  I
> set up our Kayak server to serve LTS, current stable and bloody,
> allowing me to choose at PXE-boot time which release to install.  It
> works well, but does require manually moving the kayak-kernel files
> around and editing the GRUB config, though someone clever could
> probably figure out a way to make it easier.  I'm not sufficiently
> motivated to do that right now.  ;)
> 
> Enjoy,
> Eric
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