Re: Status of UNDI Support

[Marco Gerards]

Martin Vogt <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Martin,

> 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).

GRUB is quite modular and it should be easy to this.  You can choose
which modules go into the pxe image.  There will be modules for
networking, the drivers and for UNDI.

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Marco