Re: GRUB2 / pxe

[lode leroy]

> > I managed to boot grub2 over PXE/TFTP/DHCP using the following code.
> > Could someone add this to grub2, please?
>
> This would be quite useful to me for testing, great!
>
> Using your code I made the patch I included at the end of the email.
> I've also regenerated the `conf/i386-pc.mk' file, in case you don't
> have ruby installed.  Can you please test this patch?

yes, looks like it works!

> Is it ok for you this way?


This line in the makefile is too long (or was crippled in the mail archive)

$(CPPFLAGS) -DASM_FILE=1 $(ASFLAGS) $(pxeboot_img_ASFLAGS) -M $<          | 
sed
's,pxeboot\.o[ :]*,pxeboot_img-boot_i386_pc_pxeboot.o $@ : ,g' > $@;      [ 
-s
$@ ] || rm -f $@

> > -- lode
> > ps: it's a mix between pxeloader.S from grub0.94, abd boot.S from grub2
>
> Okuji, can I commit this patch when it works for Lode?  Are there
> copyright issues?

I think there should not be copyright issues: there's only 1 line of code,
and Okuji wrote it :-)

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