Re: status of grub netboot in GRUB2

[Manoel Rebelo Abraches]

That branch is a bit outdated, I'll update id until next week at most.
We have so far the tftp protocol and a pseudo driver for open firmware.
It worked grate in our tests so far. Though it is aimed only for
sequential transfer at the moment, I'll talk with vladimir next week
some about some changes I thought to make parallelism easier( but isn't
parallelism too much for a bootloader?).
We can soon port the drivers from gpxe (Vladimir has already started
it).Next week I'll update the branch and post our progress so far with
more details.


On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 21:31 +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:
> 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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> 

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Best Regards,

Manoel Rebelo Abranches
Software engineer
IBM - Linux Technology Center - Brazil