Re: Grub pxe image reboot as soon it loads.

[Andrei Borzenkov]

01.05.2016 17:25, dE пишет:
> Hi!
>     I'm trying to make a grub pxe image to a execute an OS installed on
> the local hard disk (this's the first thing I want to achieve).
> 
> My first objective is to get the grub menu to show up (even if they're
> wrong) and get a grub command prompt.
> 
> The image was created as such --
> 
> grub2-mkimage -vO i386-pc-pxe -o /tmp/tftproot/pxe -p '(pxe)' pxe
> 

Your image does not contain any protocol driver necessary to load files
over network. Please use grub-mknetdir to generate image and tftpboot
structure.

> The contents of the /boot/grub directory were copied over to
> /tmp/tftproot/.
> 
> However as soon as the pxe image loads, grub reboots the system. It does
> not attempt to load grub.cfg or load any of the modules (I know this
> cause the pxe image does not issue any calls to the tftp server).
> 

See above. It probably reboots because it cannot access its root/prefix.
It ideally should handle it more gracefully though. Care to file bug
report so it is not forgotten?