How to setup PXE boot server on Windows XP Part IV

New requirement came again.Let's setup PXE for booting VMware ESXi and Solaris 10 (x86).

For VMware ESXi
1. Create directory C:\PXE\tftpboot\vmware\esxi that contain all files from ESXi iso.

2. Update content of C:\PXE\tftpboot\pxelinux.cfg\default

label ESXi
menu label Install VMware ESXi 4.0
kernel /vmware/esxi/mboot.c32
append /vmware/esxi/vmkboot.gz --- /vmware/esxi/vmkernel.gz --- /vmware/esxi/sys.vgz --- /vmware/esxi/cim.vgz --- /vmware/esxi/ienviron.tgz --- /vmware/esxi/image.tgz --- /vmware/esxi/install.tgz --- /vmware/esxi/cimstg.tgz
iappend 2

3. Done.So easy!!!

For Solatis 10 x86
Actually Solaris 10 x86 can be installed via jumpstart but I would like to mix them all together to only one mechanism that is PXEboot.
Solaris has a pxe file (pxegrub) for booting via pxe but it can not be loaded directly.
We need to configure pxelinux to load pxegrub and pxegrub will load menu.lst

At your NFS server
1. mount the iso file:
[root@RFATEST184 /]# mount -F hsfs -o ro `lofiadm -a /temp/sol-10-u9-ga-x86-dvd.iso` /mnt

note : if lofiadm is busy uses command below then mount mnt
[root@RFATEST184 /]# lofiadm
Block Device File
/dev/lofi/1 /temp/sol-10-u9-ga-x86-dvd.iso
[root@RFATEST184 /]# lofiadm -d /dev/lofi/1

2. Created and shared file in directory /pxeboot/solarisX86
[root@RFATEST184 /]# share
- /pxeboot ro ""

note : changed /etc/dfs/dfshare by adding line
share -F nfs -o ro /pxeboot
and save then use command shareall

3. Go to /mnt/Solaris_10/Tools that run setup_install_server and wait

[root@RFATEST184 /]# ./setup_install_server /pxeboot/solarisX86/

4. Check required file in your shared directory

[root@RFATEST184 boot]# ls -li multiboot x86.miniroot grub/pxegrub grub/menu.ls
t
474188 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 564 Aug 12 2010 grub/menu.lst
474191 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 139920 Aug 6 2010 grub/pxegrub
474202 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 136552 Aug 12 2010 multiboot
474209 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 87891019 Aug 12 2010 x86.miniroot

5. Now open your windows xp PXE boot server then ftp to NFS server and copy required file
****important**** change file pxegrub to pxegrub.0 (add .0)

Directory of C:\PXE\tftpboot\solarisX86\boot
08/12/2010 12:00 AM 136,552 multiboot
08/12/2010 12:00 AM 87,891,019 x86.miniroot

Directory of C:\PXE\tftpboot\Boot\grub
05/30/2011 05:03 PM 260 menu.lst
08/06/2010 12:00 AM 139,920 pxegrub.0

Note : menu.lst need to be in boot\grub dir because your pxegrub.0 will look into that dir by default
6. Configure file C:\PXE\tftpboot\pxelinux.cfg\default by adding below entry and save it.

label SolarisX86
menu label Install Solaris 10U9 X86
kernel /boot/grub/pxegrub.0

7. Configure file C:\PXE\tftpboot\Boot\grub\menu.lst

timeout=15
title Solaris 10 Update 9 x86
kernel /solarisX86/boot/multiboot kernel/unix -v -m verbose install nfs://192.168.8.184/pxeboot/solarisX86/jumpstart/config.tar -B install_media=192.168.8.184:/pxeboot/solarisX86/
module /solarisX86/boot/x86.miniroot

8. Get back to NFS server,We still missed config.tar that contain 4 files in /pxeboot/solarisX86/jumpstart (create new dir)

8.1 rules file
[root@RFATEST184 jumpstart]# cat rules
any - - any_machine -
8.2 rules.ok file
[root@RFATEST184 jumpstart]# cat rules.ok
any - - any_machine -
# version=2 checksum=num
8.3 sysidcfg file
[root@RFATEST184 jumpstart]# cat sysidcfg
system_locale=en_US
install_locale=en_US
terminal=vt100
name_service=NONE
network_interface=PRIMARY {protocol_ipv6=no}
security_policy=NONE
timeserver=localhost
8.4 any_machine file
[root@RFATEST184 jumpstart]# cat any_machine
install_type initial_install
cluster SUNWCXall
package SUNWaccr add
fdisk all solaris all
partitioning explicit
filesys any free /
filesys any 4096 swap
system_type server
8.5 Then tar all file
[root@RFATEST184 jumpstart]# tar c rules rules.ok any_machine sysidcfg > /pxeboot/solarisX86/jumpstart/config.tar

9. Done