Re: Update: Booting OpenSolaris via gPXE
Moinak Ghosh <[email protected]>
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On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi<[email protected]> wrote: > 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 :). Very good news indeed, thanks. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------