Hello! As manual[1] says, format of the T150 tag is "(nd)/path/to/menu.lst". Surely, to access (nd) device you have to have networking facilities compiled in.
[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Diskless.html Regards, Lubo On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:39:10AM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote: > To: grub-devel@gnu.org > From: Rainer M Krug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:39:10 +0200 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Problem with diskless boot > > Hi > > If this is the wrong newsgroup to ask, could you please direct mi to a > better one? Thanks for that. > > My Problem: > > I am trying to boot a diskless client (at the moment a virtual machine > in VM) via the network (DHCP server and tftp server on the host). My > system: SuSE 10.1 > > the tftp sever is setup and running and has the image pxegrub available. > The DHCP server is setup, assigning static IP to the VM and has the > option "option filename "pxegrub"" set. I exported the directory where > the kernel, GRUB menu config file, ... are located as read write access > for the machine VM machines. I checked, and host VM resolves to the IP. > I also tried to supply this option to this machine, but this is where > the problem comes in. > In addition, an "option T150" is defined with the tag 150 as required by > GRUB to pass the location of the configuration file for the manu > (menu.lst). Whenever I try to boot the VM, the GRUB shell comes up and > not the menu. My guess is, I need a special way to give the path to the > GRUB menu config file. I tried > > option T150 "192.168.0.1://exportedfolder/path/to/menu.lst" > and > option T150 "/exportedfolder/path/to/menu.lst" > > but the VM only opens the GRUB shell. > > I am stuck. > > Do I have to compile GRUB with the network options enabled? > > > (with the struggle of loading the kernel, I will deal later!) > > Any help welcome, > > Rainer > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel -- 4.3 BSD UNIX #1: Fri Jun 6 19:55:29 PDT 1986 Would you like to play a game? Lubomir Kundrak <http://skosi.org/~lkundrak/> NetBSD.sk <http://netbsd.sk/> Slovak Open Source Initiative <http://skosi.org/> _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
