Re: Use grub2 (uEFI netboot) to boot local OS

[Steven Shiau]

Hi Pascal,

On 5/24/19 2:21 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Le 23/05/2019 à 12:53, Steven Shiau a écrit :
>>
>> I need to switch to boot the OS on the local disk even when the
>> client machine is booted by uEFI netboot. However, it does not find
>> any block device. I entered the grub shell in the netbooted client,
>> ran "ls", then it showed me only "(proc)".
>>
>> The bootx64.efi on the netboot server was created by this command:
>>
>> grub-mkimage -C xz -O x86_64-efi -o /tftpboot/nbi_img/bootx64.efi
>> '--prefix=(tftp)/grub-efi.cfg/' -c
>> /tmp/grub-efi.FnbG08/grub-header.cfg normal tftp efinet chain echo
>> net gzio xzio linux efi_gop efi_uga png gfxterm gfxterm_background
>> gfxterm_menu serial part_gpt part_msdos boot multiboot progress
>> search ext2 xfs reiserfs jfs hfsplus fat ntfs configfile test sleep
>> tr reboot halt
>> and the grub modules were put by this command:
>> grub-mknetdir --net-directory=/tftpboot/nbi_img/grub-efi.cfg --subdir=/
>>
>> Did I miss something? How can I do so that the block device can be
>> found in the grub shell in the netbooted client? So that in the grub
>> shell in the netbooted client, if I run command "ls", it can show me
>> something like:
>> (memorydisk), (hd0), (hd0,gpt1), (hd0,gpt2), (hd0,gpt3)
>
> Maybe you need to load or include some *disk* module in the core image ?
Thank you for your reply. Yes, I did try to load disk.mod or
nativedisk.mod. However, it did not work.
Something I must have missed so that it should be in the non-(proc) mode.

Steven
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