Re: [Etherboot-developers] gPXE and GRUB2

"Arends, R.R." <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:00:16 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.devel,gmane.network.etherboot.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thomas,

Ah yes your right. I'm doing it the gpxelinux way. Gpxe -> pxelinux ->  =
grub2 (vesamenu entry).

Rene

PS: sorry for the double post

>>> On 19-11-2009 at 10:53, in message
<[email protected]>, Thomas =
Miletich
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
> The .0 postfix is used by pxelinux to indicate a NBP. gPXE will not
> use the filename as an indication of the image type. gPXE will
> autodetect the image type. As long as multiboot support is compiled
> in, it will always conclude it's a multiboot kernel.
>=20
> Loading pxelinux from gPXE and letting pxelinux load grub2pxe.0 is way
> to use an unmodified GRUB 2 and gPXE image.
>=20
> Thanks for bringing up this idea
> Thomas
>=20
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Arends, R.R. <[email protected]> =
wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> I had the same issue after following that wiki and loading the grub2pxe =
from=20
> gpxe.
>>
>> You can fix it by renaming the grub2pxe file to grub2pxe.0, then the=20
> pxestack of gpxe stays intact and it will try to load the needed mod's =
from=20
> your tftp server (next-server).
>> I didn't manage to get grub loadings its files over gpxe http yet =
tho... So=20
> if anyone else managed that, i would like to know how :D.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Rene Arends
>>
>>
>=20
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