Re: Problem with diskless boot

[Rainer M Krug <rmk@krugs.de>]

Lubomir Kundrak wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> As manual[1] says, format of the T150 tag is "(nd)/path/to/menu.lst".
> Surely, to access (nd) device you have to have networking facilities
> compiled in.

I'll try this. Thanks.
and I have to set the T150 tag to "(nd)/path/to/menu.lst" and only
replace the path/to bit and the "(nd)" stays as it is?

> 
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Diskless.html
> 
> Regards,
> Lubo
> 
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:39:10AM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>> To: grub-devel@gnu.org
>> From: Rainer M Krug <rmk@krugs.de>
>> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:39:10 +0200
>> Message-ID: <e8l31m$be6$1@sea.gmane.org>
>> Subject: Problem with diskless boot
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> If this is the wrong newsgroup to ask, could you please direct mi to a
>> better one? Thanks for that.
>>
>> My Problem:
>>
>> I am trying to boot a diskless client (at the moment a virtual machine
>> in VM) via the network (DHCP server and tftp server on the host). My
>> system: SuSE 10.1
>>
>> the tftp sever is setup and running and has the image pxegrub available.
>> The DHCP server is setup, assigning static IP to the VM and has the
>> option "option filename "pxegrub"" set. I exported the directory where
>> the kernel, GRUB menu config file, ... are located as read write access
>> for the machine VM machines. I checked, and host VM resolves to the IP.
>> I also tried to supply this option to this machine, but this is where
>> the problem comes in.
>> In addition, an "option T150" is defined with the tag 150 as required by
>> GRUB to pass the location of the  configuration file for the manu
>> (menu.lst). Whenever I try to boot the VM, the GRUB shell comes up and
>> not the menu. My guess is, I need a special way to give the path to the
>> GRUB menu config file. I tried
>>
>> option T150 "192.168.0.1://exportedfolder/path/to/menu.lst"
>> and
>> option T150 "/exportedfolder/path/to/menu.lst"
>>
>> but the VM only opens the GRUB shell.
>>
>> I am stuck.
>>
>> Do I have to compile GRUB with the network options enabled?
>>
>>
>> (with the struggle of loading the kernel, I will deal later!)
>>
>> Any help welcome,
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>>
>>
>>
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