Re: net booting sbm (smart boot manager)

[Andrei Borzenkov]

05.05.2017 07:18, Carl Karsten пишет:
> i pxe boot grub,  that works.
> 
> often I want to boot local media and don't hit the "boot device" key (which
> isn't consistent)
> 
> If I could host this on my tftp server and boot it, that would do what I
> need:
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/
> "Smart BootManager is an os independent BootManager which has easy to use
> interface and many other features. The main goals of SBM are to be
> absolutely OS independent, flexible and full-featured. It has all of the
> features needed to boot a variety of OS."
> 
> any tips on how to make that happen?
> 
> with selinux I did this:
> 
> label sbm-floppy
>     kernel syslinux/memdisk
>     append initrd=util/sbm/sbm.img
> 
> memdisk would setup a floppy like ram disk.. or something.
> 

GRUB does not have native support for RAM disk. Given that this is
completely standalone, there is little sense to re-implement memdisk
really. Just load it from grub.