Re: status of grub netboot in GRUB2

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 08/31/2010 09:05 PM, John Lumby wrote:
First of all please avoid sending HTML-formatted mails to this list.
> Anyone know if any work is being done on implementing a netboot
> function into GRUB2 similar to what is available in GRUB1?    I.e.,  
>    .   supports current network hardware with self-contained drivers
>    .  does not require PXE hardware
>    .  does not require any other software
>
This is useful functionality for e.g. OS recovery over internet, system
where firmware supports netboot but provides only pretty unusable
functions to bootloader or when GRUB itself is a firmware
Manoelo Abranches is working on this feature:
http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/people/mrabran/grub_net/ . One of the
tasks in my TODO list is to assess how much can be merged into 1.99.
> I see this article in this forum talking about some plans
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2006-05/msg00058.html
>
> and this one more recently
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-01/msg00640.html
>
> -  but they are all years ago ...
>
> Or -  is there any kind of netboot functionality in GRUB2 or being
> worked on by anyone?
>
> John Lumby
>
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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