Re: grub2 2.00, PXE boot, and freebsd 9.1

[Andrey Borzenkov]

В Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:06:04 -0500
"Richard A. Sitze" <address@hidden> пишет:

> Well *that* resolve the "not an IP" error [and, of course, on to my next 
> issue - which I need to do my homework on before bringing anything up here].
> 
> A quick diff of the 2.00 and trunk doesn't give me any good feel for any 
> one simple change to 2.00 that would fix the issue.
> 

I hate errors that just disappear. You never know whether they strike
back. Try to ask on grub-devel, may be someone has better insight.

If you are really concerned you could try bisecting it. I can explain
how to do it. But it depends on the fact that every commit compiles and
runs; it cannot be guaranteed ...

> Is trunk stable with respect to the core functionality?  Or is there a 
> path to a definitive patch to 2.00 for this issue given that it works on 
> trunk?
> 

trunk is unstable by definition ... :)

> -- Richard Sitze
> 
> On 4/17/2013 1:09 PM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > В Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:55:01 -0500
> > "Richard A. Sitze" <address@hidden> пишет:
> >
> >> I've tried the following to resolve this issue:
> >>
> >> * I've used an alternate tftp server on FreeBSD: the default, built in,
> >> /usr/libexec/tftpd server and the "in.tftpd" (also known as the
> >> "tftpd-hal" server?).
> >>
> >> * I've built the grub image file using grub-mkimage ... net tftpd pxe
> >>
> >> * I've built the grub image file core.0 using grub-mknetdir.
> >>
> >> In all cases I'm getting "error: not an IP".
> >>
> >> Not sure where to go next with this.  Any guidance would be appreciated.
> >>
> > Could you try current trunk? If it does not work I would raise issue on
> > grub-devel.
> >
> >> -- Richard Sitze
> >>
> >> On 4/14/2013 1:06 PM, Richard A. Sitze wrote:
> >>> After applying Vladimir's patch to grub 2.00 I now get: "error: not an
> >>> IP":
> >>>
> >>> *****************
> >>> * CLIENT MAC ADDR: ....   GUID: ...
> >>> * CLIENT IP: 192.168.0.15   MASK: 255.255.255.0   DHCP IP: 192.168.0.1
> >>> * GATEWAY IP: 192.168.0.1
> >>> * Welcome to GRUB!
> >>> *
> >>> * error: not an IP
> >>> * Entering rescue mode...
> >>> * grub_rescue> set
> >>> * net_default_server=
> >>> * net_pxe_boot_file=grub/grub.pxe
> >>> * net_pxe_ip=192.168.0.15
> >>> * net_pxe_max=...
> >>> * prefix=(tftp,192.168.0.1)/grub
> >>> * pxe_default_server=
> >>> * root=tftp,192.168.0.1
> >>> * grub_rescue>
> >>> *****************
> >>>
> >>> -- Richard Sitze
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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