On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Andrei Borzenkov <[email protected]> wrote: > 05.05.2017 07:18, Carl Karsten пишет: >> i pxe boot grub, that works. >> >> often I want to boot local media and don't hit the "boot device" key (which >> isn't consistent) >> >> If I could host this on my tftp server and boot it, that would do what I >> need: >> >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/ >> "Smart BootManager is an os independent BootManager which has easy to use >> interface and many other features. The main goals of SBM are to be >> absolutely OS independent, flexible and full-featured. It has all of the >> features needed to boot a variety of OS." >> >> any tips on how to make that happen? >> >> with selinux I did this: >> >> label sbm-floppy >> kernel syslinux/memdisk >> append initrd=util/sbm/sbm.img >> >> memdisk would setup a floppy like ram disk.. or something. >> > > GRUB does not have native support for RAM disk. Given that this is > completely standalone, there is little sense to re-implement memdisk > really. Just load it from grub.
Expanding on this a little, Syslinux's memdisk can be loaded from grub, and instructions for doing so can be found in Syslinux's documentation here: http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=MEMDISK#GRUB2 . -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
