Re: [netboot] A multiboot compliant GRUB ?

[Christoph Plattner]

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:

        cd stage2
        cat start diskless > stage2-diskless
        cd ..
        dd if=stage1/stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
        dd if=stage2/stage2-diskless of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1

This GRUB boot from disk, does a BOOTP query and loads the menu file
(config
file) from server.

And now I have no idea, which point is missed, which can be covered by
"booting GRUB" inside GRUB.

Cheers  
        Christoph P.


Thierry Laronde wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> With the GRUB we have a very powerful tool. For example, as everybody might
> know, you can compile GRUB with the support of all PCI NIC cards, and you
> will be able to boot via the network any unknown machine with a supported
> PCI NIC card.
> 
> I'd liked to call GRUB, via the network, to propose a menu, but, at the
> moment, this is not possible since there is only nbi or pxe GRUB.
> 
> To add support for nbi or pxe is something I can think about... But what
> about taking GRUB as the examplary kernel for the multiboot specification ?
> Then GRUB could be loaded via GRUB (on a floppy or on a disk), since GRUB
> can load multiboot compliant kernels ?
> 
> Just an idea ;)
> 
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