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From: Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@diku.dk>
Subject: Re: Diskless boot at cambridge
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:42:04 -0700
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Kip Macy wrote:
>>We use either grub with tftp (limited driver support here), 
> 
> 
> I'm having hard time even getting to the GRUB prompt so I don't think
> that is an option.

Getting this stuff running is kind of hard, but it _will_ be worth it 
almost no matter how much time you spend :-) You can also put Grub on 
the disk and then use it's ifconfig or bootp commands to configure the 
network and do tftp from there, but I have never tried that myself.

If your network adapter does not support PXE you can stick etherboot on 
a floppy (if etherboot supports your adapter that is).

Jacob