GRUB network boot-disk creator
If the boot disk creator does not work, please email me about it at the address below!
You'll get a FAT-formatted disk image. Put it on a floppy with:
dd if=grubdisk.img of=/dev/fd0As long as you leave the file stage2 untouched, you can copy/delete/edit files on the disk.
Supported filesystems are FAT and ext2 (using the BIOS) and TFTP.
Thus, possible file locations begin with (nd)/ for TFTP, (fd0)/ for a file on the bootfloppy or (hd...)/ for files on hard disks.
Supported network devices are
Netgear FA310TX,
LinkSys LNE100TX,
Macronix MX987x5,
Digital Tulip 21142,
Digital Tulip+,
Digital Tulip Fast,
Digital Tulip,
SMC EZ10/100,
Realtek 8139,
AMD PCNet32/PCI,
Intel EtherExpressPro100 (Asustek),
Intel EtherExpressPro100 ICH3,
Intel EtherExpressPro100,
3Com595,
3Com590,
3Com905C-TXM,
3Com905B-FL,
3Com905B-T4,
3Com905B-TX,
3Com900B-FL,
3Com900B-2/T,
3Com900B-Combo,
3Com900B-TPO,
3Com905-T4,
3Com905-TX,
3Com900-Combo,
3Com900-TPO,
NetVin NV5000SC,
KTI ET32P2,
Compex ReadyLink 2000,
Winbond NE2000-PCI,
Realtek 8029, and
NE*000.
Filesystem semantics are described at http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/filesystem.txt.
To boot from the network, you have set up BOOTP and TFTP servers correctly.
Uwe.Dannowski
ira.uka.de