[syslinux] Solaris / OpenSolaris

[Yiping Zhang]

To pxe boot Solari10 as a VMware guest node, one requirement burried
somewhere in their document is that the guest node has to have at least
512 MB for it to work, otherwise, the guest node will be constantly
crashing and rebooting!

Yiping

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 16:04 +0200, Knut Petter wrote:
> I'm having some difficulties pxe booting Solaris. So far I have tried 
> the mboot.c32, and the pxegrub shipped with Solaris. At first I had some 
> problems with blksize, but this disapeared when I changed from atftpd to 
> tftpd-hpa. The point at which I'm stuck now is, the kernel and 
> x86.microroot/x86.miniroot is loaded but then VMWare crashes. I might 
> try with real hardware, but I thought that VMWare had full support for 
> Solaris / PXE booting.
> 
> Currently I'm loading the pxegrub via pxelinux and this is my menu.lst 
> file for pxegrub.
> 
> #
> #pragma ident   "@(#)install_menu       1.1     05/04/15 SMI"
> #
> default=0
> timeout=30
> splashimage=/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> foreground=ffffff
> background=444444
> title OpenSolaris 2008.05
>         kernel$ /boot/grub/unix -B 
> install_media=192.168.20.57:/srv/pxeboot/opensolaris
>         module /boot/grub/x86.microroot
> 
> title OpenSolaris 2008.05 text console
>         kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B livemode=text
>         module /boot/x86.microroot
> 
> title Boot from Hard Disk
>         rootnoverify (hd0)
>         chainloader +1
> 
> If someone has input in this manner, either how to use the mboot.c32 
> module, or what is wrong with my kernel line, help would be greatly 
> appreciated.
> 
> Knut Petter
> 
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