Here's another message I received.
As I understand it, netbooting of DOS can be done using a floppy image which is specially altered to make the BIOS floppy calls read from a ramdisk instead of from the physical floppy. This would be of considerable help to us, especially on a large number of machines where GRUB (0.95) is already installed. The network aspect of this is not really necessary, though I can in fact get the parameters using GRUB's bootp command, and, for example, boot from a linux image and ramdisk using the kernel and initrd commands with (nd). What I would like is to transfer a netboot image, which I have created, for example, using etherboot (version 4.7.6), into memory and booting it as a virtual floppy. I have not succeeded in doing this using either the kernel or the chainloader commands in GRUB, since the floppy image is not that of a supported kernel, while the chainloading simply fails. Am I mistaken, or should it be a fairly simple matter to add a new 'kernel type' which is a DOS floppy image? Will this work? I'm not sure where else to ask. By the way, I'm giving a presentation and demo of GRUB at the Leeds Linux user group next Monday (http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/wylug/). I'm very grateful to you for all the work you've been doing on GRUB in recent years. -- Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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