Awesome tidbit, I'll be sure to file that one away. Also, if you're configuring for a netboot, the definitive place to look is in the kernel tree itself. I would especially recommend Documentation/initrd.txt, which is great for netbooting something that's not going to be a diskless thinclient. Regardless, that should tell you everything you need to know, or where to look for the few pieces you're missing.
--Mike On 6/13/06, YoYo Siska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mike Huber wrote: > There was a really good guide on how to do this (at least, from the > point of view of booting an nfs-mounted root directory) in the alternate > installation guide. I'm pretty sure that you have to compile grub with > the --enable-diskless option. I'm not really sure how to do that easily > within portage, but I'm sure someone will chime in with an appropiate > answer. The "netboot" use flag seems to be the right thing ;) it seems that it enables other things beside "--enable-diskless" that look like network drivers/whatever.. (never tried it) BTW if you want to pass something to ./configure in an emerge, just use EXTRA_ECONF="--enable-diskless" emerge -av grub But I don't know if it can be set pernamently for that package in some file in /etc/portage/.... > > On 6/2/06, *Enrico Weigelt* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > I'd like to let grub boot an PXE bootloader, so I've got the > option to boot from network instead of local disk. > How can I do this ? > > Currently I'm using an PXE bootdisk to boot from network, but > this is not satisfying. > > YoYo -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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