Re: Heads up: new boot loader required for x86

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

Andrew Doran wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:01:12AM -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost> 
>> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:52:16AM -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
>>>> How about people using third party boot loader ?
>>> Which one do you have in mind?
>>>
>> grub in my case.
> 
> Grub follows the multiboot specification, which we have kernel support for.
> We need some glue code in the kernel but it is able to load the modules too.
> With grub you'll have to make the module available and provide a path to
> it. I will write the code soon.

When you use GRUB and boot via PXE and with root on nfs, how does it
load the nfs file system and the network driver ?

Christoph