From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1N9NeP-0006Gz-4s for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:47:09 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N9NeN-0006GV-H5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:47:07 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N9NeI-0006Fm-7s for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:47:06 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59582 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N9NeI-0006Fd-3Z for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:47:02 -0500 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:41819 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 1N9NeH-0001dO-JN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:47:01 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N9NeE-0003jt-Fh; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:46:59 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N9NeA-0007vx-U7; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:46:54 +0100 Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:46:54 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: Thomas Miletich Message-ID: <20091114184654.GA30470@thorin> References: <4AFDEB81.7050507@gmail.com> <422fdd8a0911140615n5e16d736l7462dfcf968e2f23@mail.gmail.com> <4AFED378.3020908@gmail.com> <20091114173849.GA23651@thorin> <422fdd8a0911141003j3839662dm30489e08e87da90e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <422fdd8a0911141003j3839662dm30489e08e87da90e@mail.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: The development of GNU GRUB , etherboot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net 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 18:47:08 -0000 On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 07:03:51PM +0100, Thomas Miletich wrote: > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Robert Millan wrote: > > 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 :-) > > Loading the same GRUB 2 file that fails with gPXE works with a vendor > PXE rom. GRUB tries to fetch the file normal.mod over tftp, which gPXE > does. It fails to load normal.mod and goes to rescue mode then. It > doesn't fall back to rescue mode with a vendor PXE. > There are more details in the follow-up mails to > http://etherboot.org/pipermail/gpxe/2009-November/000008.html Ah, I see. Well, as I said in previous mail, our support for using PXE callbacks is a temporary hack. Our long-term goal is to replace it completely with standalone free drivers. So in this case, we'd use gPXE all the same but with a more efficient (and less error-prone) interface :-) That said, we're still going to carry with legacy support for a while, so if someone wants to debug this and figure out what's wrong, that'd be most welcome. -- 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."