> On 18. märts 2016, at 11:49, Stanislav Kholmanskikh > <stanislav.kholmansk...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Hi! > > On 03/18/2016 11:30 AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko >> <phco...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Le ven. 18 mars 2016 08:30, Andrei Borzenkov <arvidj...@gmail.com> a écrit : >>>> >>>> Documentation says >>>> >>>> On sparc64 GRUB is unable to determine which server it was booted from. >>>> >>>> Could someone clarify what it means here? sparc64 is ieee1275 that >>>> supports auto configuration for network boot - at least, it has code >>>> to do it. So far the only platform where it is not possible seems to >>>> be uboot (which is also missing from Platform limitations section). >>> >>> AFAIR sparc 64 doesn't provide fields code for ieee1275 depends on. Moreover >>> sparc64 doesn't support booting via dhcp and works thorough rarp instead >> >> >> Strictly speaking they boot via bootparams protocol, RARP is used for >> initial IP auto-configuration. Sun/Oracle servers support DHCP boot >> for quite some time; actually it is mandatory for Solaris 11 AI >> (automated installer). I am not sure whether they export this >> information in OBP though. >> >> Someone from Oracle listening here? > > I can't say for Oracle HW in general, but on T4, T5, T7 machines booting via > DHCP/TFTP is supported, for example via 'boot net:dhcp'. > > In our group we do load grub2 via dhcp/tftp. There were some issues, but in > general this scheme works fine. I hope patches for these issues will be sent > here soon. > > Thanks. > >
basically all sun4u and sun4v support dhcp boot (assuming up to date firmware). rgds, toomas _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
