[syslinux] Issue with pxe chainloading and grub2

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Wed Sep 19 17:07:42 PDT 2012


On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Anna Pereira <annazpereira at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Gene,
>
> Thank you for replying and having the patience to go thorugh my long mail!!!

No problem.

> There is no gPXE/iPXE invloved. A tcpdump on the dhcp server reveals no
> DHCP requests from pxegrub2.0. The git commit I used was 0a0e0e41ca and now
> I have also tried 4.06-pre11. Finally what did the trick was the  "-W"
> option. I did read in the doc that this is a Windows specific option but it
> seems to have worked with my Solaris 11 grub2 image.  Now I get to the
> point where grub.cfg is correctly located on Server1 and now it fails
> because it cannot find the IP address of the repository where solaris.zlib
> is located (this looks more like a Solaris issue that I probably need to
> spend some time figuring out).
>
> So, what does this "-W" option do??
> Thanks for all your help again!!!
> --Anna

Pushes all of the options from packet #3 (where we should be making
changes as an NBP) to packet #1 (the original reply from the DHCP
server).

So pxegrub2.0 is in Solaris-11?  I presume related to the OSS GRUB-2.0
at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ ?

-- 
-Gene



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