Re: [cobbler-devel] [RFC PATCH] Adding grub2 support for powerpc netbooting

Hi all, Currently with Cobbler, we use yaboot to netboot ppc machines. This works well, but has some limitations on IBM hardware, in particular we can (relatively) easily hit a size limit on the transferred file size, particularly for the initrd of recent distributions [1]. One solution to this issue I came up with was to use GRUB2 to netboot instead. I'd like to know what others things of this and see if I can get some help solving some open problems:

Here's what I have so far, it's pretty small & minimal pending some input on the above...

new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bc0bb9c --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/pxe/grub2_pxe_ppc.template @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +set timeout 0

+menuentry 'install' { + echo "Loading install kernel..." + linux $kernel_path $append_line + echo "Loading initrd..." + initrd $initrd_path +}