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.trib...@gmail.com<mailto:peter.trib...@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....@bsse.ethz.ch<mailto:martin....@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 _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org<mailto:openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org<mailto:openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
