Mike Wright wrote:
I'd like to have a locally installed system, but have one of the boot
choices be to network-boot into an LTSP thin-client. I don't want to
just PXE boot because I want the default after a timeout to be a local
OS. I thought some versions of grub used to be able to do the
equivalent of an etherboot internally, but that may be gone now. If I
have a stand-alone bootable floppy or CD that will network-boot the
way I want, is there a way to copy that to the hard drive and make a
grub menu choice that will load it?
If I understand you correctly that sounds like my setup. I use pxeboot
with a tree'd menu. Sub menus are boot, install, and tools. If nothing
on the main menu is selected within the timeout period the connecting
machine is instructed to boot locally using its own grub loader.
Here is the top level menu (/tftpboot/pxeboot.cfg/default)
DEFAULT menu.c32
TIMEOUT 100
ONTIMEOUT local
MENU TITLE Main Menu
LABEL local
MENU LABEL Boot from ^Local Drive
LOCALBOOT 0
LABEL boot
MENU LABEL ^Boot
KERNEL menu.c32
APPEND pxelinux.cfg/boot
LABEL install
MENU LABEL ^Install
KERNEL menu.c32
APPEND pxelinux.cfg/install
LABEL tools
MENU LABEL ^Tools
KERNEL menu.c32
APPEND pxelinux.cfg/tools
If you want the submenus, too, let me know.
Yes, that would certainly be useful in some situations, especially a lab
where an assortment of installs could be chosen. In others, though,
I'd like the machine to be able to boot locally without depending on the
network so I was hoping for the equivalent from a local grub boot.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
