Re: grub2, PXE boot, and freebsd 9.1

[Andrey Borzenkov]

В Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:53:41 -0500
"Richard A. Sitze" <address@hidden> пишет:

> 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?
> 

Network capture on TFTP server using wireshark or equivalent would be
useful here. 

> 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.
> >
>