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RE: [Xen-devel] etherboot & multiboot

To: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] etherboot & multiboot
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 11:54:23 +0100
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> I'm sure I read something somewhere about a tool which would 
> combine a multiboot image + modules into a single bootable 
> item which could be loaded by lilo, and am hoping that the 
> same thing might be able to make me something which will work 
> with xen + etherboot.

See tools/misc/mbootpack
 
> The other thing I'm sure I read somewhere (or maybe it's the 
> same thing and I'm just confused) is some way of combining 
> grub + images together so that grub doesn't need to know 
> about the network, it's all just in ram by the time grub is started.

Alternatively see Tim Deegan's post regarding multiboot support for
pxelinux.

Ian

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