[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yedidyah Bar-David) writes: > On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 03:07:36PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: >> Martin Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Isnt it possible to re-use some UNDI support from pxelinux and put it >> > into grub2? > > While I do not know the internals of grub2, I guess some parts of it run > in protected mode, while pxelinux is realmode only. I think this means > it won't be easy to use parts of it.
GRUB is able to switch to realmode and back. It's what's done when accessing the BIOS to read from disk. >> >> I don't know. I think it is better that we write it ourselves, it >> does not appear too hard to implement... > > Looking at the sources of pxelinux, it seems somewhat more complex than > what you can tell from reading the specs, mainly because you want, as > reasonably as possible, to support also buggy PXE stacks etc. So while > it's probably not that hard, it would make sense to look at pxelinux for > reference if not for the code. > > I personally was a user of both etherboot, grub with etherboot drivers > and grub with undi (which indeed did not work well for me back then - I > did not try it recently), and I agree it would make more sense for grub2 > to support undi only, unlike grub legacy which tried to support > everything etherboot supported, which was probably too much > synchronization work and therefore did not work well. I prefer to support both. The etherboot drivers usually work better than UNDI, AFAIK. But when etherboot does not support a card, people can fall back to UNDI. Don't forget that not all cards support UNDI, so I don't want UNDI only. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
