On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 12:00 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Jonathan Dieter wrote: > > This isn't quite the way that you're describing, but I've set all of the > > computers in our school to boot from PXE, and the default option in the > > pxelinux.cfg/default is to boot from the local hard drive. Whenever I > > want to re-image the computers, I just change the default option and > > send WOL to the computers. > > I want to give the option to the computer user, not have to change it on > the dhcp server. A PXE-booted grub menu would be great if one of the > choices could be to boot locally and another could be to network boot as > a thin client. Even better if another non-default choice could be to > boot into a network install. Sorry, I should have clarified. Yes, that's exactly what I mean except it's not grub that has the menu, but rather pxelinux. Mike Wright's e-mail on this thread has an example. > > > The other thing you might try would be to use Rom-o-matic to generate an > > etherboot floppy image for your network card and write it to a small > > (~1MB) partition on your hard drive. Then, in Grub do the whole > > rootnoverify(hd0,x), chainloader +1 and see how that works. I haven't > > actually tried this method, but it seems that it should work. > > Going this route, I'd rather not have to dedicate a partition. Is there > any way to put it in /boot along with a linux boot setup? As far as I can tell, no. Grub is able to grab files from a filesystem, but I don't think it can set its root device to be a file. Jonathan
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