Raw loader for diskless GRUB

2001-03-04 Thread Florian Weimer
I've got a NIC (3com 3c905c TX-M) which supports BOOTP and can load images up to a certain size (~450 KB) via TFTP. Unfortunately, the image is stored at address 0x1 and onwards, so I couldn't any of the existing boot loaders, and couldn't load the 'diskless' image directly. In order to

Boot Profiles

2001-03-04 Thread Russell Williams
Does Grub support boot profiles? If I boot a partition, I want all other partitions to be hidden. Is that possible? Regards Russell __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Re: Raw loader for diskless GRUB

2001-03-04 Thread marco grigull
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 01:18:45PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: I've got a NIC (3com 3c905c TX-M) which supports BOOTP and can load images up to a certain size (~450 KB) via TFTP. Unfortunately, the image is stored at address 0x1 and onwards, so I couldn't any of the existing boot

Re: Raw loader for diskless GRUB

2001-03-04 Thread Christoph Plattner
The nbiloader.S already does this job. The etherboot/netboot stuff also only can load not below 0x1 and so the loader includes a routine, copy the diskless code down to 0x8200. But you have to check the protocol of the loading itself. nbiloader.S uses the netboot protocol used by etherboot