On Friday 29 April 2005 02:23, Michael Hearn wrote: > Guys - Have trawled through the archives but can't track down any > similar issues - atleast reported against recent versions of grub. > I'll try and be succinct. > I'm netbooting Dell 1650's/2650's/2850's using dhcp/tftp/pxegrub - > pxegrub is compiled with e1000 driver. > Each server has eth1 wired to the network that is served by DHCP/TFTP. > Eth0 is served by a seperate subnet. > > At boot time eth1 is succesfully assigned an IP and tftp downloads > pxegrub no problem. However, once loaded pxegrub probes and finds > eth0 (and any other nic that can be initialized by the driver). This > seems to inhibit pxegrub to download menu.lst to the correct nic of > eth1. Subsequently the boot process hangs. > > Is there a way to restrict the probing?
No. All you can do is tweak the source code. I proposed a solution for this some years ago, but I didn't implement it, because I got no response, so I thought there was no interest. This should be addressed in GRUB 2. Okuji _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
