Re: net booting sbm (smart boot manager)

[Carl Karsten]

On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden>
wrote:

> 06.05.2017 01:24, Carl Karsten пишет:
> > On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 12:24 PM, 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.
> >>
> >
> > menuentry "sbm" {
> > linux  util/sbm/sbm.img
> > }
> >
>
> You need to use linux16.
>

Same

error: too many setup sectors

If you are up for booting binaries from who knows where:
http://linux.simple.be/tools/floppy/sbm.img

http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/disk/boot/boot05-SmartBootManager/
"SBM is unmaintained and has no support for USB"

Before we spend too much time on this, do you know of some other thing that
will probe the local hardware and present a list of bootable things?

It is similar to what the bios will do if I can hit the hotkey to bring up
the list of boot options.



>
> > error: too many setup sectors
> >
> > chainloader util/sbm/sbm.img
> >
> > result:
> > SMBK Bad!
> >
> > I am guessing that one is closer
> >
> >
>
>


-- 
Carl K