Re: [gentoo-user] grub + pxeboot

2006-06-14 Thread Mike Huber
Awesome tidbit, I'll be sure to file that one away. Also, if you're configuring for a netboot, the definitive place to look is in the kernel tree itself. I would especially recommend Documentation/initrd.txt, which is great for netbooting something that's not going to be a diskless thinclient.

Re: [gentoo-user] grub + pxeboot

2006-06-13 Thread YoYo Siska
Mike Huber wrote: There was a really good guide on how to do this (at least, from the point of view of booting an nfs-mounted root directory) in the alternate installation guide. I'm pretty sure that you have to compile grub with the --enable-diskless option. I'm not really sure how to do

Re: [gentoo-user] grub + pxeboot

2006-06-04 Thread Mike Huber
There was a really good guide on how to do this (at least, from the point of view of booting an nfs-mounted root directory) in the alternate installation guide. I'm pretty sure that you have to compile grub with the --enable-diskless option. I'm not really sure how to do that easily within

[gentoo-user] grub + pxeboot

2006-06-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'd like to let grub boot an PXE bootloader, so I've got the option to boot from network instead of local disk. How can I do this ? Currently I'm using an PXE bootdisk to boot from network, but this is not satisfying. thx --