[gPXE] GRUB 1.97 PXE

[Marty Connor]

Hi Paul,

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Your question is an interesting one, and we are working on better PXE 
compatibility right now.  We recently been in contact with the author of 
DNSMasq about compatibility.

I'm not quite sure I understand how this is supposed to work, and the 
difference in behavior between other PXE implementations and gPXE.  I'm 
sure we can find out with a little debugging, and we're interested in 
doing so.

gPXE stands for GPL'ed PXE.  When I came up with the name I was mostly 
looking for something that emphasized that we were doing a FOSS PXE 
implementation, so I followed the pattern of various other things like 
gcc, gawk, gnus, etc.

Thanks again for your report, and I would like to see if we can 
understand what is causing the difference in behavior you are seeing 
between PXE implementations.

Regards,

Marty

Paul Geraedts wrote on 11/3/09 7:31 PM:
> Hello,
> 
> First of all, thanks for all the effort you all put in Etherboot/GPXE
> (I've much enjoyed your Google Tech Talk Video). I recently started
> using GPXE and it simply is a great tool! I already used various GPXE
> features succesfully.
> 
> The one thing I can't seem to get to work though is the combination of
> GPXE and the PXE version of GRUB2 (the latest v1.97 to be precise). I
> followed the instructions on http://grub.enbug.org/PXEBOOT to build
> the GRUB PXE image and used DNSmasq in Ubuntu (Karmic) to serve the
> image to the client side (my laptop). It works with the build-in PXE
> ROM in my laptop, but it doesn't seem to work with GPXE. (To be
> precise: GRUB only wants to start in rescue mode in the latter case).
> Am I doing something wrong, or is there some sort of incompatibility
> between the two tools?
> 
> Any help on this is much appreciated.
> 
> Cheers, Paul
> 
> 
> BTW, what does the G in GPXE actually stand for?
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