[syslinux] Using pxelinux mboot.c32 to jumpstart a Solaris host

[Thomas Mieslinger]

Hi, I had to modify the solaris miniroot heavily to make this work. The logic in the Solaris Scripts is not clever enough to work in this scenario.

Thomas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On
> Behalf Of Wu, Johnny
> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 8:45 PM
> To: syslinux at zytor.com
> Subject: [syslinux] Using pxelinux mboot.c32 to jumpstart a Solaris
> host
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to use mboot.c32 to build our Solaris machines but the
> problem we are getting is the network interface doesn't get configured.
> It would boot in to the miniroot and then drops in to a shell.  At the
> shell, if I configure the interface via dhcp it would continue on with
> the jumpstart.
> 
> This is the first time we are using syslinux (version 4.04) and looking
> at the changelog since version 3.73 it supports the "-solaris" option
> which passes the dhcp information to the kernel.  Looking online people
> been having this problem since 2007.  I'm pretty sure it should be
> fixed by now.  Am I missing something in my config?
> 
> LABEL Oracle Solaris 10
> MENU LABEL Oracle Solaris 10
> KERNEL mboot.c32
> APPEND -solaris img/solaris/multiboot - install
> http://10.12.65.4:9090/config/jumpstart/5.10/nyc/config.tar -B
> install_media=10.12.65.4:/fs/prod/os-build/media/5.10-i386 ---
> img/solaris/x86.miniroot
> We are using a Windows DHCP which I'm not sure if it makes  a
> difference since I can get pxegrub to build the machine.
> 
> Any help would be great!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Johnny
> 
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