Re: [Etherboot-developers] gPXE and GRUB2

["Arends, R.R." <r.r.arends@hro.nl>]

Thomas,

Ah yes your right. I'm doing it the gpxelinux way. Gpxe -> pxelinux ->  grub2 (vesamenu entry).

Rene

PS: sorry for the double post

>>> On 19-11-2009 at 10:53, in message
<422fdd8a0911190153qa7c58bcle4780880401b1720@mail.gmail.com>, Thomas Miletich
<thomas.miletich@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> The .0 postfix is used by pxelinux to indicate a NBP. gPXE will not
> use the filename as an indication of the image type. gPXE will
> autodetect the image type. As long as multiboot support is compiled
> in, it will always conclude it's a multiboot kernel.
> 
> Loading pxelinux from gPXE and letting pxelinux load grub2pxe.0 is way
> to use an unmodified GRUB 2 and gPXE image.
> 
> Thanks for bringing up this idea
> Thomas
> 
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Arends, R.R. <r.r.arends@hro.nl> wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> I had the same issue after following that wiki and loading the grub2pxe from 
> gpxe.
>>
>> You can fix it by renaming the grub2pxe file to grub2pxe.0, then the 
> pxestack of gpxe stays intact and it will try to load the needed mod's from 
> your tftp server (next-server).
>> I didn't manage to get grub loadings its files over gpxe http yet tho... So 
> if anyone else managed that, i would like to know how :D.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Rene Arends
>>
>>
> 
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