Re: GRUB with ethernet support.

• To: Klaus Espenlaub <espenlaub@informatik.uni-ulm.de>
• Subject: Re: GRUB with ethernet support.
• From: Michael Hohmuth <hohmuth@innocent.com>
• Date: 30 Mar 1999 19:16:21 +0200
• Cc: Johan Rydberg <jrydberg@night.trouble.net>, oskit-users@cs.utah.edu
• In-Reply-To: Klaus Espenlaub's message of "Mon, 29 Mar 1999 09:08:00 +0200"
• References: <Pine.LNX.4.00.9903282036570.13265-100000@night.trouble.net> <36FF26D0.918C6EBC@informatik.uni-ulm.de>
• Sender: owner-oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu

Klaus Espenlaub <espenlaub@informatik.uni-ulm.de> writes:
> Johan Rydberg wrote:

> > Have anyone seen some work on GRUB that makes it possible to boot
> > kernels (and modules) from the network using bootp and tftp?
> 
> AFAIK the L4-Linux guys have hacked GRUB to support at least NFS.
> It's derived from grub 0.4.1.  You can download it from
> ftp://ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/os/L4/devel/grub-l4-981207.tar.gz

Our GRUB doesn't support NFS, but it supports BOOTP/TFTP, as requested
by the original poster.  If I'm not mistaken, the release referenced
above supports NE2000, WD8003, and NE2000-PCI NICs.

Michael
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• GRUB with ethernet support.
• From: Johan Rydberg <jrydberg@night.trouble.net>
• Re: GRUB with ethernet support.
• From: Klaus Espenlaub <espenlaub@informatik.uni-ulm.de>

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