On Tue Jun 26, 2007 at 17:01:26 +0800, Bean wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 07:58:44AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > In the wiki there's a link titled "GRUB2 netboot development" that points > > to: > > > > http://www.inma.ucl.ac.be/~guffens/grub2_netboot/index.html > > > > (broken link) > > > > Anyone knows what did this contain? Is there uncommitted work for network > > support there? Who's guffens? > > I found an old article on this subject: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2006-05/msg00020.html > > It seems that vincent guffens has ported a glue to bind grub2 and etherboot > together. However, it's no longer maintained, and the patch is nowhere to be > found. > > But porting etherboot to grub2 may not be that difficult after all, we can > use the driver from etherboot, and the glue code from Grub Legacy. The problem > is etherboot used in Grub Legacy is very old (5.0.5). The data structure has > changed a lot since then, so the glue code needs to be modified accordingly. > > There is another method, that is to rely on PXE sevice. I have written a > PXE driver for grub4dos, it uses real mode service provided by PXE stack to > access remote files, for example, to load a kernel from server, uses: > > kernel (pd)/vmlinuz > init (pd)/initrd > > The advantage of this methid is that it doesn't rely on network card, the PXE > stack handles difference internally. The disadvantage is that the stack is > present only when booting from PXE ROM (hardware rom or software rom from > etherboot).
There's also the PXE implementation in my patched grub1 version: http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~adam/grub/0.97/ The grub-0.97-os.3.README has some more infos, version os.5 is the current released version. Adam -- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lackorzynski http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~adam/ _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
