Re: Update: Booting OpenSolaris via gPXE

Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.etherboot.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Moinak Ghosh<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
Shao Miller is developing HTTPDisk which makes disk images over HTTP
available of INT 13H block devices using the Range header:
http://git.etherboot.org/?p=people/andytim/gpxe.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/httpdisk

I am working on NFSv3 over TCP support in gPXE.  This should allow
netbooting straight from an NFS root (e.g. read-only live CD
contents):
http://git.etherboot.org/?p=people/stefanha/gpxe.git;a=commit;h=89007585c623f9c291e3ddac194616d8b9321a67

Both HTTPDisk and NFSv3 are experimental but usable.

In the meantime, I will look into a proper fix for the ramdisk memory
map issue :).

Stefan

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