On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This patch add the (pxe) device that can be used to load files using > the pxe service. It also add a user land command pxe that can be used > to show pxe information as well as set some parameter. > > To create a pxe boot image: > > ./grub-mkimage -d . -o core.img pxe > cat pxeboot.img core.img > g2pxe > > g2pxe is the pxe boot file, copy it to tftp server, you also need to > copy *.mod, fs.lst, command.lst, moddep.lst and grub.cfg to /boot/grub > directory in the tftp server. > > To test it in qemu, copy the files to directory such as /tftp, then: > > qemu -boot n -tftp /tftp -bootp /g2pxe > > usage for pxe command: > > pxe info > Show information about pxe, like block size, client ip, etc. > > pxe blksize size > Set block size. tftp transfer in trunks of bytes, the size can be > configured. The minimum size is 512, which is also the default. The > maximum size is 1432. Normally, you can increase download speed by > setting larger block size, but some old tftp server may not support > it. Also, qemu doesn't support size other than 512. > > pxe unload > Unload the pxe runtime environment. > > Please note that this patch depends on my other patch bufio, you need > to apply that first. > > 2008-07-30 Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * boot/i386/pc/pxeboot.S: Use drive number 0x7F for pxe. > > * conf/i386-pc.rmk (kernel_img_HEADERS): Add machine/pxe.h. > (pkglib_MODULES): Add pxe.mod and pxecmd.mod. > (pxe_mod_SOURCES): New macro. > (pxe_mod_CFLAGS): Likewise. > (pxe_mod_LDFLAGS): Likewise. > (pxecmd_mod_SOURCES): Likewise. > (pxecmd_mod_CFLAGS): Likewise. > (pxecmd_mod_LDFLAGS): Likewise. > > * kern/i386/pc/startup.S (grub_pxe_scan): New function. > (grub_pxe_call): Likewise. > > * kern/i386/pc/init.c (make_install_device): Set root to (pxe) for pxe > boot. > > * include/grub/disk.h (grub_disk_dev_id): Add GRUB_DISK_DEVICE_PXE_ID. > > * commands/i386/pc/pxecmd.c: New file. > > * disk/i386/pc/pxe.c: Likewise. > > * include/grub/i386/pc/pxe.h: Likewise.
Hi, Any comment ? -- Bean _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
