Re: net booting sbm (smart boot manager)

[Carl Karsten]

On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 1:29 AM, Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden>
wrote:

> 06.05.2017 09:22, Carl Karsten пишет:
> > 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
> >
>
>
> Sorry, did not look carefully. You were told to load memdisk, not sbm.
> Jordan even gave you exact URL to description how to do it. Any reason
> you did not look at this URL or follow it if you did?
>
>
"Just load it from grub" sounded easier.

I'll try memdisk.


-- 
Carl K