On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 08:35:11 +0300
Yedidyah Bar-David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can boot linux with it semi-directly (with pxelinux), or through
> pxegrub (that's what we do here).
Unrelated question: I use grub/pxegrub as well. However, I couldn't
find a way (didn't hack the source yet) to have a boot menu with
both a network boot entries and several local boot entries. What
happens is that when I use "regular" grub, it doesn't know about network
devices (nd), and when I use pxegrub, it only knows about either (nd)
or "local" (not specific (hd)...).
My current ugly workaround is boot from pxegrub with a menu of:
local
network boot
And have the local entry boot a "regual" grub from the MBR with all
the local operating systems on this computer.
Any better options?
> If you can't find cheap cards with a suitable bootrom, and do not
> mind having small disks on the clients (which you want anyway for
> swap etc.), you can also put etherboot on the disks.
Or even on floppy which I once used on my old firewall. Since the etherboot
image is very small (1/2K ?) the bios access the floppy very quickly
( < 1second) and it doesn't slow the boot like normal "floppy-based" linux.
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