[syslinux] Solaris / OpenSolaris

[Anthony Hare]

Hmm, I am having similar issues but I am using Solaris 10 (5/08).  If I
use mboot.c32 it gets to a point and doesn't get an ip addr (now the
Broadcom drivers are already in the kernel).  

Has anyone got this to work without using pxegrub?

If I try pxegrub it doesn't work for me.. What is the location of you
menu.lst file?  I was getting - 

in.tftpd[19579]: tftp: client does not accept options

It would drop me back at a grub prompt...



-----Original Message-----
From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On
Behalf Of Tom Mahoney (syslinux-emails)
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 8:15 AM
To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa
Subject: Re: [syslinux] Solaris / OpenSolaris

Solaris 10 and I imagine OpenSolaris can't get the network values 
booting under mboot.c32 currently which is what you would use I believe.
I have two entries one which works for me which is the pxegrub renamed 
to pxegrub.0 (It did not work until I renamed it to have a .0 at the
end)

label Solaris_10_pxegrub
   menu label Solaris 10 pxegrub
   kernel /boot/grub/pxegrub.0

label Solaris_10
   menu label Solaris 10
   kernel mboot.c32
   append /boot/solaris/multiboot kernel/unix -v -m verbose install 
nfs://192.168.79.1:/jumpstart/sol10/configs -B 
install_media=192.168.79.1:/jumpstart/sol10 --
- /boot/solaris/x86.miniroot

The second entry above is 4 lines so the append line is likely broken 
but should be one line it self. This entry also only boots part way. 
These are part of my jumpstart setup.

-Tom Mahoney

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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