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From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: zaphod@berentweb.com
Subject: Re: PXE boot over NFS please
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 09:15:19 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140602091519.11933ca5@opensuse.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPSTsks1k2vCP5Nq6doz5_cRV4H2_MRXi30PDNiOHDrQLDiHJg@mail.gmail.com>

В Sun, 1 Jun 2014 20:53:27 +0300
Beeblebrox <zaphod@berentweb.com> пишет:

> In a previous discussion on this list, I was advised grub does not boot
> over NFS, and that it must use TFTP only.
> 
> I had asked the questionn because of this article [
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/pxe.html) where it states:
> 
> gpxelinux.0 from the SYSLINUX project will be used as a PXE boot loader
> 
> XUbuntu With NFS: This menu entry sets the netboot and nfsroot options.
> "label xubuntu \   menu label XUbuntu \   kernel
> images/xubuntu/casper/vmlinuz \ append boot=casper netboot=nfs \
> nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/usr/tftpboot/images/xubuntu \  initrd
> images/xubuntu/casper/initrd.lz"
> 
> I just wanted to advise that, although I have not tried it, SysLinux seems
> able to boot over NFS.

Where Linux kernel mounts its root filesystem from is hardly related to
how bootloader obtains Linux kernel. 

>                        I hope one day Grub will be able to as well.
> 

Implementing NFS client in grub is a lot of work for very little gain,
especially if you are speaking about PXE which mandates working tftp
server. What exact functionality is missing right now?

> Thanks and Regards.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-02  5:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-01 17:53 PXE boot over NFS please Beeblebrox
2014-06-02  5:15 ` Andrey Borzenkov [this message]
2014-06-02  5:35   ` Beeblebrox
2014-06-02  6:12     ` arvidjaar
2014-06-02 15:14       ` Beeblebrox
2014-06-02 15:50         ` Andrey Borzenkov
2014-06-02 17:36           ` Beeblebrox
2014-06-06 12:11             ` Beeblebrox
2014-06-07  4:59               ` Andrey Borzenkov
2014-06-07  6:15                 ` Beeblebrox
2014-06-07  7:24                   ` Andrey Borzenkov
2014-06-07  7:33                   ` Beeblebrox
2014-06-08  5:23                     ` Andrey Borzenkov
2014-06-09  4:55                     ` Beeblebrox

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