On 08/31/2010 09:05 PM, John Lumby wrote: First of all please avoid sending HTML-formatted mails to this list. > Anyone know if any work is being done on implementing a netboot > function into GRUB2 similar to what is available in GRUB1? I.e., > . supports current network hardware with self-contained drivers > . does not require PXE hardware > . does not require any other software > This is useful functionality for e.g. OS recovery over internet, system where firmware supports netboot but provides only pretty unusable functions to bootloader or when GRUB itself is a firmware Manoelo Abranches is working on this feature: http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/people/mrabran/grub_net/ . One of the tasks in my TODO list is to assess how much can be merged into 1.99. > I see this article in this forum talking about some plans > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2006-05/msg00058.html > > and this one more recently > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-01/msg00640.html > > - but they are all years ago ... > > Or - is there any kind of netboot functionality in GRUB2 or being > worked on by anyone? > > John Lumby > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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