From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1FylKr-0006Yp-G7 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 04:05:13 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FylKp-0006Xb-1V for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 04:05:11 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FylKn-0006X8-1u for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 04:05:10 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FylKm-0006X3-St for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 04:05:08 -0400 Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FylL9-0005Ep-Es for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 04:05:31 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FylKg-0005E5-2K for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:05:02 +0200 Received: from ecolmod1.sun.ac.za ([146.232.209.2]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:05:02 +0200 Received: from rmk by ecolmod1.sun.ac.za with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:05:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: grub-devel@gnu.org From: Rainer M Krug Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:05:28 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20060707075200.GE22970@meta.morph.sk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ecolmod1.sun.ac.za User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060420) In-Reply-To: <20060707075200.GE22970@meta.morph.sk> Sender: news Subject: Re: Problem with diskless boot X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:05:11 -0000 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 >> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:39:10 +0200 >> Message-ID: >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Grub-devel mailing list >> Grub-devel@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >