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Re: pxe works!


From: Adrian Phillips
Subject: Re: pxe works!
Date: 08 Nov 2001 13:12:30 +0100
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>>>>> "David" == David A van Leeuwen <address@hidden> writes:

    David> The only thing that i don't understand is that i had to
    David> compile in a choice for the network card hardware
    David> (--enable-eepro100) while in fact i only wanted to compile
    David> pxegrub---and isn't PXE giving me a hardware-independent
    David> network execution environment?  That it, i would believe
    David> that my setup would have worked by selecting any other
    David> network card.  I haven't tested that.

Grub needs a network card and a driver to make use of that card. I
can't say I understand PXE, is this DHCP or variant of it ? If it is
then you still need grub to go out over the network to grab the DHCP
info.

Sincerely,

Adrian Phillips

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