Re: net booting sbm (smart boot manager)

[Andrei Borzenkov]

06.05.2017 01:24, Carl Karsten пишет:
> On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> 
>> 05.05.2017 07:18, Carl Karsten пишет:
>>> i pxe boot grub,  that works.
>>>
>>> often I want to boot local media and don't hit the "boot device" key
>> (which
>>> isn't consistent)
>>>
>>> If I could host this on my tftp server and boot it, that would do what I
>>> need:
>>>
>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/
>>> "Smart BootManager is an os independent BootManager which has easy to use
>>> interface and many other features. The main goals of SBM are to be
>>> absolutely OS independent, flexible and full-featured. It has all of the
>>> features needed to boot a variety of OS."
>>>
>>> any tips on how to make that happen?
>>>
>>> with selinux I did this:
>>>
>>> label sbm-floppy
>>>     kernel syslinux/memdisk
>>>     append initrd=util/sbm/sbm.img
>>>
>>> memdisk would setup a floppy like ram disk.. or something.
>>>
>>
>> GRUB does not have native support for RAM disk. Given that this is
>> completely standalone, there is little sense to re-implement memdisk
>> really. Just load it from grub.
>>
> 
> menuentry "sbm" {
> linux  util/sbm/sbm.img
> }
> 

You need to use linux16.

> error: too many setup sectors
> 
> chainloader util/sbm/sbm.img
> 
> result:
> SMBK Bad!
> 
> I am guessing that one is closer
> 
>