Re: PXEgrub development on grub2

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Donnerstag, den 10.09.2009, 14:39 +0200 schrieb Michal Suchanek:
> 2009/9/9 Seth Goldberg <address@hidden>:
> >
> >
> > Quoting Michal Suchanek, who wrote the following on Wed, 9 Sep 2009:
> >
> >> HEllo
> >>
> >> 2009/9/9 Felix Zielcke <address@hidden>:
> >>>
> >>> Am Mittwoch, den 09.09.2009, 17:07 +0300 schrieb Lars Nooden:
> >>>>
> >>>> I see that all new work is on Grub2.  What timeline is there for
> >>>> bringing the pxegrub functionality forward to grub2 from legacy grub?
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards
> >>>> -Lars
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> I don't know what pxegrub can do, but GRUB 2 has PXE support:
> >>> http://grub.enbug.org/PXEBOOT
> >>>
> >>
> >> This would suffice for reading config and/or default from tftp so the
> >> boot selection can be changed remotely on systems that have PXE.
> >>
> >> Is it possible to do something similar on systems that do not have PXE
> >> (ie systems without PXE BIOS or Apple EFI)?
> >
> >  Have you looked at gPXE? http://etherboot.org/wiki/index.php
> >
> 
> It sounds good. Looks like gPXE should work on EFI.
> 
> I will try to build an image.
> 

Though that doestn't change that pxe.mod is currently only build for
i386-pc and nothing else

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Felix Zielcke
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