Re: Status of UNDI Support

[Martin Vogt]

Marco Gerards wrote:
> Martin Vogt <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi Martin,
>
>   
>> I just tried pxegrub2, but I found out that the network support
>> is missing. (can load pxegrub, but no menu.lst or kernel etc....)
>>
>> My experience with grub1 and the etherboot based nic support,
>> is that it does not work well, so I still use pxelinux.
>> I always thought that grub2 wont use etheboot and only supports UNDI,
>> like pxelinux.
>>     
>
> At the moment GRUB 2 does not support networking.  But we are working
> on that.
>
>   
>> Isnt it possible to re-use some UNDI support from pxelinux and put it
>> into grub2?
>>     
>
> I don't know.  I think it is better that we write it ourselves, it
> does not appear too hard to implement...
>
>   
Hi Marco,

thanks for your reply. I read a bit grub2-devel and found out that there
are some thoughts about linuxbios support.
I dont know if linuxbios has some abstraction for network access.
Usually (clusterenvironment) you get linuxbios with the right
etherboot  prom installed. The normal way for installing is
booting an .ebi installer.
The other way which somtimes is used, you go over pxe to
the right etherboot image and then load an ebi.
Only as an idea: It would be great if one grub binary could
work on then UNDI layer and the etherboot layer (if there is any).

But I dont know if this is possible at all.

regards,

Martin