From: Vasily Averin <vvs@parallels.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Feature request: network devices
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:40:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AF3D2D7.10204@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bb81f540911050959u4a240e62wc005f99ea2ee28de@mail.gmail.com>
mardok45 wrote:
> I'm attempting to load Grub2 off a DHCP server with Macintosh's
> (PowerPC) Netboot.
>
> I am able to boot Grub2, but it gives me the following errors:
>
> error: no such disk
> Unsupported type network for device last-boot
> Unsupported type network for device last-boot
> error: no such disk
I've used grub from bean's git repository and lightly patched it to add memdisk
module for efi.
Then I've created grub.efi binary with embed grub.cfg and embed disk with kernel
image.
> I'd like to make a feature request to have network device drivers. It'd
> be nice to be able to boot off the network and be prompted with a menu
> that allows you to boot into one of several different Linux environment
> contained on a server. Maintenance and imaging are the main things I
> want to use this for.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-06 7:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-05 17:59 Feature request: network devices mardok45
2009-11-06 7:40 ` Vasily Averin [this message]
2009-11-11 0:28 ` mardok45
2009-11-11 4:32 ` Seth Goldberg
2009-11-11 5:02 ` Bean
2009-11-11 7:02 ` Vasily Averin
2009-11-11 7:13 ` Bean
2009-11-11 7:45 ` Vasily Averin
2009-11-12 1:08 ` Seth Goldberg
2009-11-12 5:01 ` Bean
2009-11-12 5:56 ` Seth Goldberg
2009-11-11 22:33 ` mardok45
2009-11-11 22:38 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-11-12 23:02 ` mardok45
2009-11-13 12:13 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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