[syslinux] Issue with pxe chainloading and grub2

[Gene Cumm]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Anna Pereira <annazpereira at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

That'd be a perfect match.

-- 
-Gene