[syslinux] PXELINUX, pxechain.com and Etherboot
Joyce Yu
Joyce.Yu at Sun.COM
Wed May 13 15:32:57 PDT 2009
I might encounter a different problem than Clay. I will try again and
send you the output. Since it has been a while, I forgot the error messages.
Thanks,
Joyce
On 05/13/09 03:26 PM, Michael Brown wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 May 2009 22:19:17 Joyce Yu wrote:
>
>> I think that I told you earlier. gPXE doesn't work with Solaris. I need
>> to use something that can load Solaris at least. I tried a few gPXE
>> supported NICs. None of them can load Solaris. Clay has done some
>> analysis. Attached his old email to you. If gPXE can load Solaris, I
>> will definitely use gPXE.
>>
>
> I believe that the only two relevant issues mentioned in that e-mail are the
> lack of native gunzip support and the command line stripping argv[0]. The
> latter is on my current todo list, the former will probably never be included
> (see recent discussion on etherboot-developers), but the really *important*
> point is that *Etherboot* *5.4* *does* *not* *provide* *these* *features*.
>
> If you are managing to load a gzipped multiboot kernel using Etherboot, then
> you *must* be using some additional software such as pxelinux. This software
> will work just as well or better with gPXE in place of Etherboot 5.4.
>
> There is, as far as I can tell from what you say, absolutely *no* technical
> reason for you to be using Etherboot 5.4.
>
> For the record, you will probably get best results using gPXE with syslinux's
> mboot.c32, which I believe supports gzipped multiboot kernels.
>
> Michael
>
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