[PATCH] bootp --with-configfile

[Thierry Laronde]

Hello,

As suggested by Okuji, I have added the option `--with-configfile' to
`bootp' allowing the automatic loading of the configuration file as given by
the BOOTP/DHCP server. Okuji was right : it is more clean, and, BTW, quite
simple.

Please note that there is no straightforward way to avoid endless loops
(firt menu.lst with `bootp --with-configfile' calling another file with this
very same command etc...), because the filename must be combined to the
`root' partition in order to be uniquely defined (you can call first say
(hd0,0)/grub/menu.lst and give "/grub/menu.lst/" as the second filename,
which can be another file if root is not (hd0,0)).

Here is the proposed ChangeLog entry :

        * stage2/builtins.c (bootp_func): added option `--with-configfile'
          instructing GRUB to load the config file given by the BOOTP/DHCP
          server via the tag 150;
          added prototype for configfile_func
        * docs/grub.texi (netboot): added explanations about this

Regards,        
-- 
Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France
http://www.cri74.org
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