[illumos-Developer] Illumos device drivers (Was: Solaris Future?)

[Igor Kozhukhov]

A brief search on Google I have found:
http://blog.buttermountain.co.uk/2008/05/24/pxe-net-booting-open-solaris-200
805-release/

It is blog about PXE configuration.

About miniroot.

You can find it on ISO CD.

Please take a look files list of tree on my system:
/var/lib/tftpboot/opensolaris/platform# ls -1
i86hvm
i86pc
i86xpv

They are dirs you can find on ISO CD.

Please take a look blog and try to configure PXE boot.

I didn't remember how to configure it step-by-step and I have configured
Linux PXE server for loading OpenSolaris - but it worked.

Try to find : OpenSolaris PXE boot - on Google.

Best regards,
Igor

> From: Gary Mills <mills at cc.umanitoba.ca>
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:54:38 -0500
> To: Igor Kozhukhov <ikozhukhov at gmail.com>
> Cc: "James C. McPherson" <james.c.mcpherson at gmail.com>,
> "developer at lists.illumos.org" <developer at lists.illumos.org>
> Subject: Re: [illumos-Developer] Illumos device drivers (Was: Solaris Future?)
> 
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 08:39:48PM +0400, Igor Kozhukhov wrote:
>> 
>> Do you have experiences with PXE boot from network?
> 
> Yes, in two different ways.  At work, I configured our DHCP server to
> provide a boot block to Solaris 10 x86 machines.  With that, they
> began a custom Jumpstart OS installation.  At home, I set up an AI
> server and then did a network install of Opensolaris, back when it was
> still open.
> 
>> I tried load onnv_134 by PXE on my HW machine because I had problems with
>> IDE-CD/USB-CD drives.
>> 
>> For PXE boot you have to configure server, load miniroot by PXE and next you
>> will be able to use your CD/DVD drive - local or external.
> 
> I've never done it that way.  Last time I tried a network boot of my
> Acer laptop, it failed because of buggy ethernet firmware.  I'll try
> it again.  Where did you get the miniroot?
> 
>> It is not easy and need more time for investigation problems/PXE beet
>> configuration ...
>> 
>> I had about one week for setup environment.
> 
> Yes, it's tricky, especially when you only have a graphic console.
> 
> -- 
> -Gary Mills-        -Unix Group-        -Computer and Network Services-