Re: Update: Booting OpenSolaris via gPXE
Moinak Ghosh <[email protected]>
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On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Moinak, > Here are some results after looking into this using the unix kernel > and ramdisk from milax 0.4 LiveCD (svn_114 32-bit). [snipped] > > Does this help? > > Stefan > Hey, thanks a lot. This should definitely help. I am looking at automating some stuff using gPXE and will try this out when I get into office on Monday. Grub does indeed decompress images to memory. In the meantine I have tried out something else. Using the sanboot mechanism to load a kernel and ramdisk from an iSCSI target via Grub. But I hacked gPXE to introduce a new option that avoids populating the IBFT. Thus the kernel does not think that it is an iSCSI boot and continues to load normally off the self-contained ramdisk. I was even wondering that this BIOS int13 drive emulation can be extended to work over HTTP using the Range header. This will enable booting arbitrary OS ramdisks using their native loaders over HTTP. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------