Re: netboot, was Woody Freeze Plans - Progress Report
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 03:13:04PM -0700, Nicolas Lopez wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:49:28PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 06:52:42PM -0700, Nicolas Lopez wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:22:48AM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> > > > >>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Lopez <kimo_sabe@atdot.org> writes:
> > > >
> > > > Nicolas> Or a pxegrub image ;) Or nbgrub if you're got an
> > > > Nicolas> etherboot rom.
> > > >
> > > > What is pxegrub? What is nbgrub?
> > > pxegrub: Grub packaged to be fed to a PXE boot client
> > > nbgrub: Grub packaged in an etherboot/netboot NetBoot image.
> >
> > Are they included in the ordinary grub package? They was not some
> > time ago...
> They are in the source, like the rest of the netboot stuff. They just
Well that is what I have done now, compiled it myself.
> arn't enabled in the current packages. Most because it's ugly, and a bit
ugly?
> unsafe(think ISA) to enable all the ethernet drivers & netboot stuff in grub
Well ok, isa is a bad thing... :)
> when it'll be primarily used to boot from a harddrive. It should be
> trivially easy to recompile grub with support for your NIC and (pxe|nb)grub
> images.
I'm thinking of a easy installation of diskless clients and for that
purpose grub is great! :)
Maybe a grub-netboot should be good. grub-bug is the maintainer, what
does that mean? Is it the upstream maintainers or is it not maintained
by anyone?
Regards,
// Ola
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