Re: [gentoo-user] grub + pxeboot

[Mike Huber]

Awesome tidbit, I'll be sure to file that one away.  Also, if you're
configuring for a netboot, the definitive place to look is in the
kernel tree itself.  I would especially recommend
Documentation/initrd.txt, which is great for netbooting something
that's not going to be a diskless thinclient.  Regardless, that should
tell you everything you need to know, or where to look for the few
pieces you're missing.

--Mike



On 6/13/06, YoYo Siska <yoyko@×××××××.sk> wrote:
> Mike Huber wrote:
> > There was a really good guide on how to do this (at least, from the
> > point of view of booting an nfs-mounted root directory) in the alternate
> > installation guide.  I'm pretty sure that you have to compile grub with
> > the --enable-diskless option.  I'm not really sure how to do that easily
> > within portage, but I'm sure someone will chime in with an appropiate
> > answer.
>
> The "netboot" use flag seems to be the right thing ;) it seems that it
> enables other things beside "--enable-diskless" that look like network
> drivers/whatever.. (never tried it)
>
> BTW if you want to pass something to ./configure in an  emerge, just use
>
> EXTRA_ECONF="--enable-diskless" emerge -av grub
>
> But I don't know if it can be set pernamently for that package in some
> file in /etc/portage/....
> >
> > On 6/2/06, *Enrico Weigelt* < weigelt@×××××.de
> > <mailto:weigelt@×××××.de>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     Hi folks,
> >
> >
> >     I'd like to let grub boot an PXE bootloader, so I've got the
> >     option to boot from network instead of local disk.
> >     How can I do this ?
> >
> >     Currently I'm using an PXE bootdisk to boot from network, but
> >     this is not satisfying.
> >
> >
>
>
>
> YoYo
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