need to program grub by hour and date?

Hi. I am planning to add some commands to Grub in order to work with hour and date. I need situations on which this will be useful and requests on how would the commands will be run. I propose you two situations. 1) Situation. Clusters In an university or high school BIOS are set to be

RE: need to program grub by hour and date?

Why not use a DHCP boot - you can still boot from the HD, but the DHCP server will give a different grub menu depending on the time. Kjeld -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bug-grub-bounces+kjeld.flarup.christensen=ericsson.com @gnu.org] On Behalf Of adrian15

Re: need to program grub by hour and date?

Kjeld Flarup Christensen (ST/LMD) wrote: Why not use a DHCP boot - you can still boot from the HD, but the DHCP server will give a different grub menu depending on the time. Kjeld I prefer the dchp method but there are some advantages with the offline method. 1) You don't have to depend

[bug #13338] link to 'grub wiki' doesn't work

Update of bug #13338 (project grub): Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitemitem_id=13338

Using RPL to load grub

Hello, I have a touchscreen computer that has a RPL (remote program load) network boot ROM built into it. I was able to use the open source rpld program to load grub/stage2 and reached a grub command prompt. I was then able to use grub's DHCP and TFTP support to load an NFS root Linux kernel and

Re: rip-14.9: Modifying /boot/grub/menu.lst

On 2/9/06, Kjeld Flarup Christensen (ST/LMD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure that your serial settings are correct? The settings were correct. It looks like the likely cause was a framebuffer patch he applied to GRUB on the RIP disc. I compiled GRUB 0.97 and replaced the version on the

Re: Using RPL to load grub

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:53:05AM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: Hello, I have a touchscreen computer that has a RPL (remote program load) network boot ROM built into it. I was able to use the open source rpld program to load grub/stage2 and reached a grub command prompt. I was then able to

Re: Using RPL to load grub

On 2/10/06, Yedidyah Bar-David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no idea, but I do not think it should be necessary - how did you compile your grub? I am pretty sure something like '--enable-diskless' should make it config through the network. I know this is so for nbgrub and pxegrub, but never

Re: Using RPL to load grub

On 2/10/06, Shaun Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... By default the diskless image fetches /boot/grub/menu.lst. Is it possible to specify something else? Preferably something dynamic, such as /tftpboot/grub/%s, where %s is the IP address of the booting machine. I used a text editor (vim) to

savedefault missing?

I recently updated my debain system from 0.95 to .96 and grub-reboot seems to be missing from the install. Also savedefault no longer works at the command line. GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB