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diff --git a/unsorted/AdvancedGrubUsage.mdwn b/unsorted/AdvancedGrubUsage.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 8e307b4f..00000000 --- a/unsorted/AdvancedGrubUsage.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,42 +0,0 @@ -## <a name="Advanced_Grub"> Advanced Grub </a> - -[Grub](http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/) is a capable boot loader. This document is intended to capture some of its most interesting features and try to explain them a bit better than the texinfo documentation. - -### <a name="Debian_Grub"> Debian Grub </a> - -The Debian grub packages do not have networking enabled, so you have to apt-get the source, modify the debian/rules file to include --enable-network-card and dpkg-buildpackage to get a .deb of grub that supports TFTP. - -1. cd /usr/src/debian -2. apt-get source grub -3. cd grub-\_VERSION\_ -4. Add `--enable-tulip` or similar for your NIC to the `./configure` line of the `configure-stamp` target in the `debian/rules` file. -5. `dpkg-buildpackage` (as `root`) -6. `cd ..` -7. `dpkg -i grub*.deb` -8. cp /lib/grub/\_ARCH\_/\* /boot/grub/, e.g., _ARCH_ is `i386-pc` -9. Edit your `/boot/grub/menu.lst` (see below) -10. If your boot disk is `/dev/hda` ==> `grub-install (hd0)` - -### <a name="TFTP_Boot"> </a> TFTP Boot - -Using trivial ftp to load a kernel is one of the best features of Grub. Here is how it is done. - -The `menu.lst` can look something like this: - - ifconfig --address=192.168.1.2 --server=192.168.1.1 - root (nd) - kernel /gnu/boot/oskit-mach.gz root=device:hd0s2 -- - root (hd0,1) - module /hurd/ext2fs.static \ - --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} \ - --host-priv-port=${host-port} \ - --device-master-port=${device-port} \ - --exec-server-task=${exec-task} \ - -T typed ${root} $(task-create) $(task-resume) - module /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec $(exec-task=task-create) - -**Note: Make sure there are NO spaces after the trailing backslases (\\)!!** - -For more information on GNUmach modules lines and installation setup, see [[Hurd/InstallNotes]] - --- [[Main/JoachimNilsson]] - 13 Apr 2005 |