[syslinux] PXELINUX, pxechain.com and Etherboot for Solaris

[Geert Stappers]

Op 20090513 om 23:26 schreef Michael Brown:
> 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.

FWIW I have read succes messages of mboot.c32 booting Solaris.


Stappers