[gPXE-devel] Opensolaris workaround

[Floris Bos]

Hi,

I managed to get Opensolaris working, but I'm not sure if my quick workaround 
is the best way to solve it.


Attached a patch, which works around the following issues:

- Opensolaris expects to receive the full path to the kernel, not just the 
filename.

- Grub loads modules at the beginning of the address space, while Gpxe seems 
to do at the end.
Opensolaris's kernel startup routine expects grub's behavior, and searches for 
a region of free memory after the address of the last loaded module, which is 
normally not available when you use gpxe.

- Opensolaris expects to be passed the DHCP ACK packet.


Perhaps someone more familiar with the gpxe codebase, can take a look at it 
and transform it into a proper patch.


Yours sincerely,

Floris Bos
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