On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Francois Dion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:56 AM, The Loeki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> While I can't answer your question directly, I have once used sunpci2 and >> did some pretty nasty stuff to it :-) >> >> What I did once for example is bolt a lot of stuff from a boot CD-ROM >> (Hirens in my case) onto the DOS install 'image dir' of SunPCI. That >> actually wasn't that difficult (basically the image directory contains a few >> small boot image files and a lot of general files, so all you have to do is >> copy your stuff next to it and make sure it actually runs on the provided >> DOS), and using that method, you should be able to (I have been) to get it >> to boot from either a CDROM or even a network. > > I was reading about grub for dos. Maybe that's the ticket. I'll have > to play with that a bit. grub for dos even supports booting from a > virtual disk (.img file). I just dont know if it'll boot Solaris. > > We'll see.
Ok, it definitely wont boot from a .img file. What happens is that although initially grub does see the image, once you map it to an actual hard disk, when you try chainloading, you get an error 22, no partition found, because the sunpci hook to the dos driver is no longer there. So it is either jumpstart or grub for dos and boot from cdrom. I dont know what it is calling the USB cdrom though. ATAPI on grub for dos is easy, beside the sunpci already supports booting from the onboard ide connector (I'm going to use this with my IDE-CF adapter to put a 32GB CF and that's where I'll install the OS). However booting from a USB CDROM again is not obvious. I cant figure out the enumeration that grub 4 dos does. I guess I'll download the source and figure it out. I wont bother the list again until I have a definitive yes or no as far as booting solaris x86 on it. Sorry for going OT. Francois _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
