Re: [netboot] A multiboot compliant GRUB ?

[Thierry Laronde]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:04:49PM +0100, Christoph Plattner wrote:
> Hello,

Hello,

>       I don't understand the the sense of that. Why I want to boot GRUB
> via GRUB ? If I have running a GRUB than I can do anything. The only
> missing 
> point you may speak about, is the possibility to load GRUB from disk
> (floppy)
> and boot the menu from net.
> 
> But there is a simple way (work around) to have this running, by writing
> the
> diskless version of GRUB to disk:

That was the point, and I didn't think about this possibility. Thanks.

"Why should I want to boot GRUB via GRUB" : for dynamic configuration : I
have a generic floppy, but the configuration is remotely given, including
the choices. Your solution addresses this point.

For a multiboot compliant GRUB, this is using GRUB for the example of a
multiboot "kernel", allowing, also, to boot it via the network with a
vanilla netboot GRUB.

Cheers,
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Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France
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