Oliver, The link that you provided appears to apply to GRUB Legacy (0.9x), not to GRUB2.
Luc. Oliver Rath <[email protected]>schreef: >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 >> [email protected] >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub > > >_______________________________________________ >Help-grub mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
