Re: Grub Manual

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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


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