mardok45 wrote: > Before I give you an answer, let me explain what I plan on doing. If > you like it, and if I succeed, then I'll give back the changes I > made. If not, then I won't waste everybody's time anymore. > > I plan on using Macintosh's "Netboot" (which is just like PXE except > for a few minor details) to boot Grub2 off a DHCP/TFTP server. Once > loaded on the client, Grub2 will fetch the grub.cfg from the TFTP server. > > The grub.cfg will contain entries that are the same as booting off the > local disk; except in this case, it fetches the kernel and initrd via > TFTP. > > Adding TFTP support is all I'm going to do, nothing else. Also, I > have no problem using Etherboot's code-base. > "nothing else" is often a problem. There are dependencies too. I started importing gpxe and till now it goes well > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko > <phco...@gmail.com <mailto:phco...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > mardok45 wrote: > > I am interested in it as a learning project for me. I only have > > access to New World Macintosh's, so I can only get TFTP working for > > Open Firmware Mac's. I imagine that won't be of much use to you. > > > > Remember, I can't make any promises, but I am very interested in > > getting TFTP to work (with Open Firmware) since that will make > my job > > much, much more centralized and convenient. > The best long-term and cross-platform approach is to import gpxe into > grub-extras. Are you willing to do it? > > -- > Regards > Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org <mailto:Grub-devel@gnu.org> > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
-- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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