Re: UNDI and PXE [Re: netbooting pxegrub]

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to Mark Buckaway:
> What grub needs for remote booting is a UNDI driver that talks to the
> ROM on a PXE enabled ethernet card. The idea of having to compile in a
> Etherboot driver is silly given UNDI is a standard interface to access
> the ethernet card.

An UNDI driver would be nice, but (1) I don't trust UNDI drivers [hard
experience with Intel PXE 1.0], (2) UNDI drivers need to be called in
real mode, IIRC, which makes them awkward *and* slow, and (3) the case
I'm working on isn't PXE anyway; I'm booting from CD or floppy, then
loading a kernel over the net with TFTP.  Trust me, I really *do* need
to do this.

> I know of one individual working on this driver.  Anyone else on the list
> happen to be working on an UNDI driver for grub?

The UNDI driver would be a good alternative to have in hand, even if
it doesn't always work.  I'd be happy to help test it.
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