[OmniOS-discuss] kayak bugs, r151008j

[Lauri Tirkkonen]

On Mon, Jan 20 2014 17:10:14 +0000, Sean Doran wrote:
> Incidentally, the kayak process works fine with iPXE instead of
> pxegrub, with one big gotcha, namely that pxegrub gunzips miniroot.gz
> whereas iPXE does not have that functionality (yet).   The kernel
> can’t itself deal with a compressed miniroot and promptly crashes.
> 
> Given how much better http is than tftp is in almost every way, and
> ditto iPXE over pxegrub, having an uncompressed miniroot (at ca. 148M
> rather than 44M) kicking around in /var/kayak/kayak doesn’t seem too
> awful.

Hmm, thanks for the heads up, I might try this at some point. We are
using grub2 for our netboots, which also supports http, but based on one
test the implementation seems to be just as slow as tftp.

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