Re: Help with GRUB and Network Boot

[Christoph Plattner]

Hello, 

first of all, is it possible to use `$VARIABLE's ?
Or is this only the notation you use here ?

It is not necessary to build a new image includining initrd.
Simple use NFS-ROOT.
If you use a DHCP/BOOTP server, you must compile in the auto IP
config into the kernel and use `ip=bootp' as kernel parameter
or you do the configuration statically using `ip=......',
`nfsroot=.....'. For more details see the diskless HOWTOs and
the NFSROOT HOWTOs. The `ip=' has many options .....

I hope I could help you ...

Bye
Christoph


Ivan Passos wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm playing with GRUB (v0.91)and its network boot, and it works
> beautifully. However, as of now, I was only able to make it work with two
> separate files (kernel and initrd). I'd like to get it to work with one
> single file (that contains kernel + initrd), but I don't know how to
> create this file. Can someone please help me?!?!
> 
> More details ...
> 
> With GRUB (the version I use is 0.91), you may boot via network by adding
> something like this to your menu.lst:
> 
> Title Network Boot
> ifconfig --address=$LOCAL_ADDR --server=$TFTP_SRV_ADDR
> root (nd)
> kernel $KERNEL_IMG root=/dev/ram0
> initrd $INITRD_IMG
> 
> This works like a charm. As a next step, I'd like to have one single file
> that contains both the kernel image and the initrd image, just because
> distributing one file is easier than two ... :)
> 
> In this case, I'm looking for the following menu.lst entry:
> 
> Title Network Boot
> ifconfig --address=$LOCAL_ADDR --server=$TFTP_SRV_ADDR
> root (nd)
> kernel $NEW_KERNEL_IMG root=/dev/ram0
> 
> , where $NEW_KERNEL_IMG contains both $KERNEL_IMG and $INITRD_IMG.
> 
> I _believe_ this is possible because when you boot from a floppy, both the
> kernel and the initrd are in the floppy, so I guess that the generation of
> the file I want is similar to the way the boot floppies are generated. I'm
> not sure about that though ...
> 
> Any help would be highly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance!!
> 
> Later,
> Ivan
> 
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