Hi Okuji San, On Monday 21 June 2004 13:51, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Monday 21 June 2004 10:30, Feng Shuo wrote: > > Many thanks to Hans-Peter Jansen, our diskless patch for Grub > > 0.95 released, which is based on the etherboot-5.3.8 drivers: > > Great. > > > The patch only contains the latest drivers. Some bug fixes (such > > as bugs in VMWare and dhcp probe) will be handled in later > > versions. :-) > > What do you mean by "dhcp probe"? I don't care about VMWare since > it's proprietary, but dhcp support is quite important. > > Probably what makes me hesitating to apply your patch is that I > don't know the status of your patch very well. Could you summarize > all problems you know in your patch?
I can only speak for our 0.94 patchset, which is quite stable, and allows netbooting for quite a lot more actual systems then before. DHCP as of 0.94-patched without the supplementary DHCP hack is working fine, as I expect Shou's 0.95 patch. Basically grub 0.95's current netbooting infrastructure is actually a bitrotten mess, based on an ancient etherboot version (5.0.9 IIRC). Shou did a lot of fine work to get away from this mess. It allowed me to update some drivers to the current version. I will try to give Shou's 0.95 patch some testing in the next few days. All in all I would say, give it a try. I'm sure, people will complain loudly if netbooting things fall apart, but IMHO it really couldn't get much worser :-). Moreover I expect some more people to become happy grub users from the netbooting side of the world without heavy patch orgies. Pete _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
