Getting files over http from a pxe grub

[Ioan Damian]

Hi everyone,

I managed to install a pxe grub and boot from it. What I want to do is use http instead of tftp as I have large files (iso's, archived root filesystems, etc) and the transfer time improves over http.

Until now I was achieving this using iPXE and syslinux and I wanted to give grub2 a spin as it has a lot more features.

My menu entry looks something like this:

menuentry 'Install Debian 6.0 amd64' {

                                insmod net

                                insmod http

                                set netboot='http,10.100.16.23'

                                linux (netboot)/debian/6.0/amd64/linux

                                initrd vga=normal initrd=(netboot)/debian/6.0/amd64/initrd.gz -- quiet

                        }

I know the debian kernel and initrd are small but, this is just to show what I've tried. I've looked on the net low and high but, couldn't find anything related to this kind of setup.