FW: How to get grub with network support?

[Robinson, Andrew W.]

I forgot to send this to the list...

 

From: Robinson, Andrew W.
 

OK, ask and ye shall figure it out...

 

I sent the message, walked away from my desk, and thought of the right query for the list archives: "net patch". I found this message from Feng Shou, http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2004-06/msg00084.html, with this pointer to the patch I needed: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?item_id=9408&item_file_id=1420.

 

I'm adding this description is so I can find it again in the list archive J

 

1. Download and gunzip the patch file.
2. Copy the patch file into the top directory of the grub source, grub-0.95
3. Apply the patch: patch -p1 < grub-0.95-diskless-patch-1.patch
4. Configure for the interfaces: ./configure -prefix=/tmp/local -enable-diskless -enable-tg1 -enable-e1000
5. Note: I'm putting this grub into /tmp/local because it is a single use purpose. I don't want it to tromp on the standard grub installation.
6. Install grub on a diskette that I can use to boot my servers and workstations: cd /tmp/local/sbin; ./grub-install /dev/fd0.
7. I'll need to make a configuration to access the various versions of linux on the installation server. That's next.

 

Thanks for all the great work. Sorry to be so ignorant.

 

Andew

 

PS: I do have a question. Is there somewhere to go to browse what patches are available?

 

 

From: Robinson, Andrew W. [mailto:address@hidden
 

First I'll apologize for the newbie-ish nature of this post. I have need but I don't have the knowledge.

 

The need is for a version of grub that will support network booting on new Dell servers and workstations. The workstations use the e1000 network driver. The servers use the tg3 network driver. Neither of these seems to be supported in the grub-0.95 I downloaded from the Gnu site. I've been poking around the mailing list archive for several hours now. As best as I can tell, some of you have added support for both these network drivers and made them available as patches. I have not been able to tell where I can find these patches and how to apply them.

 

My question: could some kind soul tell me where to find the patches for the e1000 and tg3 drivers? Then could you explain to me how to apply those patches?

 

Many thanks in advance!

 

Andrew Robinson