RE: status of grub netboot in GRUB2

[Turner, Ian]

> What is the point of having a bootloader that needs to sit on a disk on
> a box, when then network boots?  With PXE and the like you don't need
> any disk and means you are really net booting.

In all fairness, this is useful if you want to network-boot a box for OS 
installation but do not control the DHCP servers on the network. But I suspect 
you can boot GRUB from physical media and then still activate the PXE module 
afterwards.

--Ian