From: Yoann Moulin <informatique@mistur.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Patch for export IP addresses from PXE into grub2 enviroment variables
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:07:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD6D847.3010402@mistur.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AD6D6B7.5010500@gmail.com>
>>> Having the Client IP avaible inside grub.cfg might be useful for some.
>>> Then you could have one grub.cfg for all your machines and if one or a
>>> small number of it needs some special stuff, you could just check for
>>> the IP inside the grub.cfg. Then you don't need to use a seperate one
>>> for them.
>>
>> Please, no. That's terribly non-scalable for a large number of
>> clients (enterprise deployments). We definitely need a solution that
>> includes the configuration file to use as a DHCP option.
>>
> One doesn't prevent another. And then it will be up to administrator to
> choose the way they want their system to work
>> --S
might be good to get option-150 first for compatibility with old grub
than developed new feature ? I mean, this feature can be useful for some
people but option-150 must be need by more people ?
Yoann
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-15 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-15 6:52 Patch for export IP addresses from PXE into grub2 enviroment variables Aleš Kapica
2009-10-15 6:53 ` Seth Goldberg
2009-10-15 7:38 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-10-15 7:51 ` Seth Goldberg
2009-10-15 8:00 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-10-15 8:04 ` Seth Goldberg
2009-10-15 8:07 ` Yoann Moulin [this message]
2009-10-15 8:05 ` Felix Zielcke
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