| You can use the netboot support to download OS images from a network. |
| Nearly all the device drivers are coming from the network-based boot |
| loader, Etherboot. Please visit its web page. They have rich |
| documentations so you will be able to get useful information from there. |
| The URL is <http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/>. |
| |
| These below are common options for configure. Perhaps you may not need |
| to specify them. |
| |
| --disable-packet-retransmission |
| Turns off packet retransmission. Use it on an empty network, where |
| no packet collision can happen. |
| |
| --enable-pci-direct |
| Define this for PCI BIOSes that do not implement BIOS32 or not |
| correctly. |
| |
| --enable-diskless |
| Enable the diskless support. If specified, you will get two optional |
| images, called "nbgrub" and "pxegrub". The former is the ``Net Boot |
| Image Proposal'' format, which is used by Etherboot and Netboot, while |
| the latter is the ``Preboot Execution Environment" format, which is |
| used by a PXE ROM. You may buy a PXE ROM from some companies. |
| |
| Here is the information about the device drivers. They are all disabled |
| by default, so you must specify configure options to enable drivers you |
| want to use. Some drivers have extra per-driver options, so the extra |
| options are also described below. |
| |
| Caution: You should enable them as you need. Don't enable any |
| unnecessary driver, because GRUB might crash if you include too many |
| drivers at the same time. |
| |
| 3Com503, aka Etherlink II, also /16 model |
| --enable-3c503 |
| --enable-3c503-shmem |
| Use 3c503 shared memory mode. |
| --enable-3c503-aui |
| Use AUI by default on 3c503 cards. |
| |
| 3Com507 |
| --enable-3c507 |
| |
| 3Com509, ISA/EISA |
| --enable-3c509 |
| --enable-3c509-hack |
| Send two bootp packets before waiting for a reply to the first. |
| Makes a 3c509 do bootp quicker. |
| |
| 3Com529 == MCA 3c509 |
| --enable-3c529 |
| |
| 3Com590 |
| --enable-3c590 |
| |
| 3Com595 |
| --enable-3c595 |
| |
| 3Com90x |
| --enable-3c90x |
| |
| Crystal Semiconductor CS89x0 |
| --enable-cs89x0 |
| --enable-cs-scan=LIST |
| Probe for CS89x0 base address using LIST of comma separated hex |
| addresses; increasing the address by one (0x300 -> 0x301) will force |
| a more aggressive probing algorithm. This might be neccessary after |
| a soft-reset of the NIC. |
| |
| Digital DE100 and DE200 |
| --enable-depca |
| |
| Intel Etherexpress Pro/100 |
| --enable-eepro100 |
| |
| SMC 83c170 EPIC/100 |
| --enable-epic100 |
| |
| EXOS205 |
| --enable-exos205 |
| |
| Lance PCI PCNet/32 |
| --enable-lance |
| |
| Linksys LNE100TX and other NICs using this Tulip clone chip |
| Netgear FA310TX and other NICs using this Tulip clone chip |
| Tulip clones based on the ADMtek Centaur-P |
| Tulip clones based on the Macronix 987x5 |
| Tulip-Fast |
| Tulip+ |
| Tulip 21142 |
| --enable-tulip |
| |
| NE1000/2000 and clones (ISA) |
| --enable-ne |
| --enable-ne-scan=LIST (0x280,0x300,0x320,0x340) |
| Probe for NE base address using LIST of comma separated hex |
| addresses. |
| |
| Novell NE2100 (Lance based, also works on NE1500) |
| --enable-ne2100 |
| |
| NE2000 PCI clone (RTL8029) |
| Winbond 86C940 |
| Compex RL2000 |
| KTI ET32P2 |
| NetVin 5000SC |
| --enable-ns8390 |
| --enable-compex-rl2000-fix |
| If you have a Compex RL2000 PCI 32-bit (11F6:1401), and the probe |
| hangs in "Probing...[NE*000/PCI]", try enabling this fix... it |
| worked for me :). |
| --enable-ns8390-force-16bit |
| It seems that forcing 16 bit bus width for NEPCI causes |
| Etherboot/GRUB to fail on the RTL8029. Therefore |
| --enable-ns8390-force-16bit should only be turned on for those NEPCI |
| NICs that falsely detect 8 bit bus width when it should be 16. |
| |
| Racal-Interlan NI5210 |
| --enable-ni5210 |
| |
| Racal-Interlan NI6510 |
| --enable-ni6510 |
| |
| Realtek 8139 |
| SMC 1211 |
| --enable-rtl8139 |
| |
| Schneider and Koch G16 |
| --enable-sk-g16 |
| |
| SMC9000 |
| --enable-smc9000 |
| --enable-smc9000-scan=LIST |
| List of I/O addresses to probe. |
| |
| Tiara, Fujitsu Lancard |
| --enable-tiara |
| |
| Old base driver for Tulip clones |
| --enable-otulip |
| |
| Rhine-I, e.g. D-Link DFE-530TX |
| Rhine-II |
| --enable-via-rhine |
| |
| WD8003/8013, SMC8216/8416 |
| --enable-wd |
| --enable-wd-default-mem=MEM (0xCC000) |
| Default memory location for WD/SMC cards. |
| |
| |
| The description about how to use the support can be found in the GRUB |
| manual. Run "info grub" in the shell prompt. |