[syslinux] Issue with pxe chainloading and grub2

[Anna Pereira]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/ ?
>
> No, GRUB2 is not currently part of Solaris11. I found a bug in GRUB2 that
talks about GRUB2 only processing DHCP ACK packets:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2011-12/msg00026.html. Wonder if
that is the reason I saw this failure in the first place.

--Anna


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> -Gene
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