[OpenIndiana-discuss] Net booting OI Hipster using iPXE

[Till Wegmueller]

Unfortunately not quite :)

The Shell scripts in slim_source[0] at this time only support mounting 
usb or cdrom but downloading the .zlib files into a tmpfs could be 
added. PR's Welcome :) Let me know if you need help how to modify the 
script. OmniOSCE has it's own handling of installation which supports -B 
install_media

-Till

[0] 
https://github.com/OpenIndiana/slim_source/blob/oi/hipster/usr/src/cmd/slim-install/svc/media-fs-root#L70-L107

On 22/09/2022 14.03, Peter Tribble 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> 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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