On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 09:31:13PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > 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.
Well a neat program for booting over the internet would be gPXE: http://boot.kernel.org/ Maybe that does what needed already. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
