[OpenIndiana-discuss] Net booting OI Hipster using iPXE

[Fox Martin]

Hi Peter,
Many thanks for the reply.
I had tried this kernel option, but using the hostname rather than the IP. Sadly using the IP gave the same result as before.
I also had read somewhere that iPXE is not capable of uncompressing the boot_archive file so I uncompressed that file. I did proceed beyond a very early error message and got to the messages I posted previously.
I also tried adding the option install_boot=http://1.2.3.4/media/directory/boot as well as passing -v to get some more information.

What I did forget to mention is that the machine under test is a VM in a large VMWare vSphere system. If I upload the iso to vSphere and attach it to the machine I can boot up just fine. The guys asked me however if I could get a netboot system working for use on bare metal servers down in the server room and so avoid the need for that USB stick which can never be located just when you need it!!

thanks anyway,
Kind regards
Martin

On 22 Sep 2022, at 19:03, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com<mailto:peter.tribble at gmail.com>> wrote:

I *think* adding the following to the kernel line ought to do the trick

-B install_media=http://1.2.3.4/media/directory/

where the url there is the directory containing the solaris.zlib file (and
for some releases, any other zlib files).

You'll probably need to use the IP address.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 4:59 PM Fox Martin <martin.fox at bsse.ethz.ch<mailto:martin.fox at bsse.ethz.ch>> wrote:

Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, I searched long and hard
and could not find what I really needed.
I have a working iPXE server with various Linux and Windows images served
up over HTTP.

For OI I tried the usual tricks of specifying the kernel and initrd and
then issuing a boot command but the installer always stops just after
"Probing for device nodes ...
Preparing live image for use"
and then
"Requesting System Maintenance Mode" appears.

Are there kernel parameters or something else I need to issue to tell the
OI system more about the location of boot folder, solaris.zlib etc?

If there are links to documentation which solve this issue I would be
grateful to get them.

thanks
Martin


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