[syslinux] PXELINUX, pxechain.com and Etherboot

[Joyce Yu]

Michael,

I just tried to use gPXE 0.9.7 to  load Solaris. It works.  I will port 
the drivers to the gPXE 0.9.7.

Thanks a lot,
Joyce
 

On 05/19/09 12:44 AM, Michael Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 May 2009 06:06:13 Joyce Yu wrote:
>   
>> I am really not using any special software. Under the /tftpboot/solaris:
>>
>>  <snip>
>>
>> *S11_112_pxegrub is the boot loader that shipped with Solaris image
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>         host lab-s2 {  <================== MY SYSTEM loading Solaris
>>                 hardware ethernet xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx;
>>                 fixed-address xx.xx.xx.xx;
>>                 filename "solaris/S11_112_pxegrub";
>>         }
>>     
>
> The software that you are using is therefore "pxegrub".
>
> Solaris ships with a very heavily modified version of pxegrub that is known to 
> break on versions of gPXE prior to Jan 27 2009.  You will need to be using 
> the current gPXE tree (or the 0.9.7 release, which is recent enough).
>
> Please run
>
>   git describe --tags
>
> in your gPXE tree, and report the output here.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>   


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