Re: net booting sbm (smart boot manager)

[Jordan Uggla]

On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden> wrote:
> 05.05.2017 07:18, Carl Karsten пишет:
>> i pxe boot grub,  that works.
>>
>> often I want to boot local media and don't hit the "boot device" key (which
>> isn't consistent)
>>
>> If I could host this on my tftp server and boot it, that would do what I
>> need:
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/
>> "Smart BootManager is an os independent BootManager which has easy to use
>> interface and many other features. The main goals of SBM are to be
>> absolutely OS independent, flexible and full-featured. It has all of the
>> features needed to boot a variety of OS."
>>
>> any tips on how to make that happen?
>>
>> with selinux I did this:
>>
>> label sbm-floppy
>>     kernel syslinux/memdisk
>>     append initrd=util/sbm/sbm.img
>>
>> memdisk would setup a floppy like ram disk.. or something.
>>
>
> GRUB does not have native support for RAM disk. Given that this is
> completely standalone, there is little sense to re-implement memdisk
> really. Just load it from grub.

Expanding on this a little, Syslinux's memdisk can be loaded from
grub, and instructions for doing so can be found in Syslinux's
documentation here:
http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=MEMDISK#GRUB2 .

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