Hi Christian, imho Grub2 is already enabled to download files via ftp and http. So you can download vmlinuz and initrd and boot it. See i.e. https://tr.opensuse.org/SDB:Booting_from_the_Network_with_GRUB
Hth Oliver On 26.07.2015 00:14, Christian Meyer wrote: > Hello there, > > is there a way to locally start grub (via hd, CD or USB) and let it boot > a GNU/Linux system over the network only using TFTP (with given > servername or IP adress) but without using PXE? > > Background: I'm running a windows active directory with an active PXE > booting environment to deploy windows on the network. For security > reasons I'm not allowed to modify the server or the boot config. > > So I installed a Debian TFTP and NFS server on a seperate machine using > the windows AD as the DHCP and DNS server. Windows server "knows" this > computer but of course does not know it as a DHCP "next-server". > > I now want to configure local grub not to boot Windows PXE but the Linux > kernel and initrd (and later NFSROOT) from my Linux server using its DNS > name or IP adress. > > Christian > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-grub mailing list > Help-grub@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list Help-grub@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
