From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1N9Maa-0000g5-FD for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:39:08 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N9MaY-0000fx-DZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:39:06 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N9MaT-0000eE-9P for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:39:05 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40032 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N9MaT-0000eB-3E for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:39:01 -0500 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:43160 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N9MaS-0006da-Fe for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:39:00 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N9MaO-0003UZ-Vm; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:38:58 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N9MaH-0006C9-5e; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:38:49 +0100 Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:38:49 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GNU GRUB Message-ID: <20091114173849.GA23651@thorin> References: <4AFDEB81.7050507@gmail.com> <422fdd8a0911140615n5e16d736l7462dfcf968e2f23@mail.gmail.com> <4AFED378.3020908@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AFED378.3020908@gmail.com> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Cc: etherboot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net, Thomas Miletich Subject: Re: [Etherboot-developers] gPXE and GRUB2 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:39:07 -0000 On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 04:57:44PM +0100, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > I think the fastest way to make GRUB2 use gPXE's networking features > > is to use both of them as they currently are. GRUB2 can be integrated > > as a embedded image into gPXE. gPXE boots, does a DHCP requests, > > executes a PXE capable GRUB 2 image and GRUB 2 uses the standard PXE > > functions. Sure, we can do this. But since both projects are free software, it seems to me that source-level integration can provide the best experience to our users. That aside, our use of PXE facilities is a bit temporary. In the future we'd like to use free drivers rather than reliing on preinstalled, buggy firmware blobs (gPXE sets a good example that this approach is viable). > > There are also still problems preventing GRUB 2 from running with > > gPXE. Please have a look at the thread at > > http://etherboot.org/pipermail/gpxe/2009-November/000008.html > > Having someone looking into this from the GRUB side of things would be helpful. If he followed the instructions in http://grub.enbug.org/PXEBOOT it is to be expected that GRUB only starts in rescue mode, because that's what the selection of modules in that page provides. I don't think there's anything wrong in either gPXE or GRUB; perhaps the wiki page :-) -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."