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Re: pxe works!
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Yoshinori K. Okuji |
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Re: pxe works! |
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Sat, 10 Nov 2001 15:05:36 +0900 |
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At Thu, 8 Nov 2001 11:59:38 +0100,
David A. van Leeuwen <address@hidden> wrote:
> The only thing that i don't understand is that i had to compile in a choice
> for
> the network card hardware (--enable-eepro100) while in fact i only wanted
> to compile pxegrub---and isn't PXE giving me a hardware-independent network
> execution environment? That it, i would believe that my setup would have
> worked by selecting any other network card. I haven't tested that.
That's because GRUB doesn't support the PXE interface to manage a
network card. GRUB uses device drivers derived from Etherboot for the
network support, even in a PXE environment. This could be fixed, though.
Okuji