Thanks for the numerous replies. Some comments interspersed and one question at the end.
Lennart Sorensen wrote: | What is the point of having a bootloader that needs to sit on a disk on | a box, when then network boots? With PXE and the like you don't need | any disk and means you are really net booting. There are various situations where PXE is not an answer. Examples - no PXE in the NIC The system BIOS can't or won't communicate with my tftp network server - e.g. maybe this is an Apple IMac which refuses to tftp to my server and other posters mentioned other reasons. Basically, I am hoping for what GRUB1 offered - fetch a linux kernel over the network using tftp under control of GRUB. Ian Turner wrote: | But I suspect you can boot GRUB from physical media | and then still activate the PXE module afterwards. ... | Netboot works in grub2, but only using the PXE protocol. Very interesting - but how? see my question below. Vladimir Serbinenko wrote: | Manoelo Abranches is working on this feature: | http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/people/mrabran/grub_net/ I looked and don't see any content anywhere under that page or the neighbouring http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/people/phcoder/net/.bzr/ Lennart Sorensen wrote: | Well a neat program for booting over the internet would be gPXE: | http://boot.kernel.org/ Yes and no. It can fetch a kernel over the network, but it's not GRUB! - when run in boot program mode, can't be embedded on hard disk (I think), has to reside on floppy or CDRom - I think this mode of use was never its primary intention - it's designed to be burned into a eeprom and operate automatically - hence ... - ... really ugly user interface as compared to GRUB (no command recall, useless help, no completion, etc) - strange and apparently sometimes unsuccessful method for building a version with support for my NIC - I have to go to some site and "order" it, rather than configure / make etc. Question: is the current (1.98) netboot/PXE functionality documented somewhere? I did try reading the 1.98 info but the node for "Network" is empty - and it seems nothing there in the .texi. Sorry if this is all covered back in the archives but I don't see it or it's out of date. John _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
