[syslinux] PXELINUX, pxechain.com and Etherboot

[Joyce Yu]

Michael,

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.

Thanks,
Joyce


On 05/13/09 02:05 PM, Michael Brown wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 May 2009 19:25:31 Joyce Yu wrote:
>   
>> Anyone has tried to use pxechain with Etherboot? Here is my problem:
>>
>> The Etherboot client had no problem to get the list of install servers
>> manual from the pxechain. But didn't matter which server was chosen,
>> Etherboot client always tried to use the first server to do the
>> installation.  Etherboot 5.4 was used.
>>
>> What the problem may be? PXEchain or Etherboot?
>>     
>
> Joyce,
>
> Etherboot 5.4 is no longer developed or supported.  As has been mentioned to 
> you personally several times over the past few years, you should be 
> developing your driver within gPXE instead.
>
> I typically expect to complete development of a gPXE driver for a new 10GigE 
> card within two weeks.  Instead of spending years of time and effort in 
> tracking down bugs in Etherboot that have long been fixed in gPXE, you could 
> have developed (or funded) your driver within gPXE many times over.
>
> Why do you continue to ignore this advice?
>
> Michael
>   


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