Bug#106399: GRUB with netboot feature

[Piotr Roszatycki]

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Hi.

Please support netboot feature. It is the only way to boot the old Intel 
network card if it can't be upgraded. This card can't connect to tftp server 
from bootrom because of broken tcp/ip stack in its bios. The only way is to 
boot it from floppy with GRUB.

I've attached my patch. It works for me.

I've attached also the menu.lst for netboot debian installer.

I've prepared the floppy with following commands:

# superformat /dev/fd0
# mke2fs /dev/fd0
# tune2fs -i0 -c9999 -m0 /dev/fd0
# mount /floppy
# mkdir -p /floppy/boot/grub
# cp -f /lib/grub/i386-pc/{stage1,stage2,*stage1_5} /floppy/boot/grub 
# cp menu.lst /floppy/boot/grub
# grub
grub> root (fd0)
grub> setup (fd0)
grub> quit
# umount /floppy


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diff -Nru grub-0.95+cvs20040624/debian/changelog grub-0.95+cvs20040624.netboot/debian/changelog
--- grub-0.95+cvs20040624/debian/changelog	2005-03-31 16:32:05 +0200
+++ grub-0.95+cvs20040624.netboot/debian/changelog	2005-03-30 20:45:23 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+grub (0.95+cvs20040624-6.0.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Unofficial
+  * Enable networking support.  
+
+ -- Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@debian.org>  Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:09:56 +0200
+
 grub (0.95+cvs20040624-16) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * update-grub: fix kopt parsing to handle + signs in kernel versions
diff -Nru grub-0.95+cvs20040624/debian/rules grub-0.95+cvs20040624.netboot/debian/rules
--- grub-0.95+cvs20040624/debian/rules	2005-03-31 16:32:05 +0200
+++ grub-0.95+cvs20040624.netboot/debian/rules	2005-03-30 20:45:08 +0200
@@ -94,8 +94,40 @@
 		--prefix=/ \
 		--mandir=/usr/share/man \
 		--infodir=/usr/share/info \
-		--disable-auto-linux-mem-opt
-
+		--disable-auto-linux-mem-opt \
+		--enable-pci-direct \
+		--enable-3c509 \
+		--enable-3c529 \
+		--enable-3c595 \
+		--enable-3c90x \
+		--enable-cs89x0 \
+		--enable-davicom \
+		--enable-depca \
+		--enable-eepro \
+		--enable-eepro100 \
+		--enable-epic100 \
+		--enable-3c507 \
+		--enable-exos205 \
+		--enable-ni5210 \
+		--enable-lance \
+		--enable-ne2100 \
+		--enable-ni6510 \
+		--enable-natsemi \
+		--enable-ni5010 \
+		--enable-3c503 \
+		--enable-ne \
+		--enable-ns8390 \
+		--enable-wd \
+		--enable-otulip \
+		--enable-rtl8139 \
+		--enable-sis900 \
+		--enable-sk-g16 \
+		--enable-smc9000 \
+		--enable-tiara \
+		--enable-tulip \
+		--enable-via-rhine \
+		--enable-w89c840 \
+		--enable-diskless
 	touch configure-stamp
 
 build: build-arch

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default         0

serial
terminal --timeout=10 console serial

color cyan/blue white/blue

title		linux
bootp
root		(nd)
kernel		/debian-installer/i386/linux ramdisk_size=9424 root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw  --
initrd		/debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz
boot

title		cdrom
bootp
root		(nd)
kernel		/install/vmlinuz vga=normal ramdisk_size=10240 root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw
initrd		/install/initrd.gz
boot

title		expert
bootp
root		(nd)
kernel		/debian-installer/i386/linux DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low vga=normal ramdisk_size=9424 root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw  --
initrd		/debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz
boot

title		linux26
bootp
root		(nd)
kernel		/debian-installer/i386/2.6/linux vga=normal ramdisk_size=10934 root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw  --
initrd		/debian-installer/i386/2.6/initrd.gz
boot

title		expert26
bootp
root		(nd)
kernel		/debian-installer/i386/2.6/linux DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low vga=normal ramdisk_size=10934 root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw  --
initrd		/debian-installer/i386/2.6/initrd.gz
boot

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