Re: grub2, PXE boot, and freebsd 9.1

[Richard A. Sitze]

So I hand-patched tftp.c with the 4 lines of changes described by 
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36755.

No change - still getting a timeout.  May be that earlier patches 
contribute towards resolving this?

FreeBSD 9.1 won't let me install bzr, so I'm stuck for now.  Time for a 
weekend.

Thanks all for sharing your knowledge,

-- Richard Sitze

On 4/12/2013 4:06 PM, Jordan Uggla wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Richard A. Sitze <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Anyway, all that leads me to my current (possibly overkill) usage:
> > * grub-mkimage --format=i386-pc-pxe --output=grub.pxe --prefix='/grub' boot
> > priority_queue datetime bufio net tftp pxe
> >
> > and I do get further.  Thank you.
> >
> > Alas, not all is well.  I now get "error:  timeout reading
> > '/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod'".
> >
> > Sigh.
> The timeout is due to http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36755 , fixed in
> bzr trunk in revision 4548. This problem needs to be better
> documented, a point release of grub 2.00 made with this (and probably
> other) fixes, or both. Also, it's easier and more dependable to use
> grub-mknetdir rather than using grub-mkimage directly.