1 You can use the netboot support to download OS images from a network.
2 Nearly all the device drivers are coming from the network-based boot
3 loader, Etherboot. Please visit its web page. They have rich
4 documentations so you will be able to get useful information from there.
5 The URL is <http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/>.
7 These below are common options for configure. Perhaps you may not need
10 --disable-packet-retransmission
11 Turns off packet retransmission. Use it on an empty network, where
12 no packet collision can happen.
15 Define this for PCI BIOSes that do not implement BIOS32 or not
19 Enable the diskless support. If specified, you will get two optional
20 images, called "nbgrub" and "pxegrub". The former is the ``Net Boot
21 Image Proposal'' format, which is used by Etherboot and Netboot, while
22 the latter is the ``Preboot Execution Environment" format, which is
23 used by a PXE ROM. You may buy a PXE ROM from some companies.
25 Here is the information about the device drivers. They are all disabled
26 by default, so you must specify configure options to enable drivers you
27 want to use. Some drivers have extra per-driver options, so the extra
28 options are also described below.
30 Caution: You should enable them as you need. Don't enable any
31 unnecessary driver, because GRUB might crash if you include too many
32 drivers at the same time.
46 Crystal Semiconductor CS89x0
49 Probe for CS89x0 base address using LIST of comma separated hex
50 addresses; increasing the address by one (0x300 -> 0x301) will force
51 a more aggressive probing algorithm. This might be neccessary after
52 a soft-reset of the NIC.
54 Davicom DM9102 and 9009
57 Digital DE100 and DE200
60 Intel Etherexpress Pro/10 (ISA card)
63 Intel Etherexpress Pro/100
82 Novell NE2100 and NE1500
88 National Semiconductor DP8381x (Netgear FA311 and FA312)
94 3Com503, aka Etherlink II, also /16 model
97 Use 3c503 shared memory mode.
99 Use AUI by default on 3c503 cards.
101 NE1000/2000 and clones (ISA)
103 --enable-ne-scan=LIST (0x280,0x300,0x320,0x340)
104 Probe for NE base address using LIST of comma separated hex
107 NE2000 PCI clone (RTL8029)
114 --enable-compex-rl2000-fix
115 If you have a Compex RL2000 PCI 32-bit (11F6:1401), and the probe
116 hangs in "Probing...[NE*000/PCI]", try enabling this fix... it
119 WD8003/8013, SMC8216/8416
121 --enable-wd-default-mem=MEM (0xCC000)
122 Default memory location for WD/SMC cards.
124 Old base driver for Tulip clones
129 D-Link DFE530TX+ and DFE538TX
135 Schneider and Koch G16
140 --enable-smc9000-scan=LIST
141 List of I/O addresses to probe.
143 Tiara, Fujitsu Lancard
146 Linksys LNE100TX and other NICs using this Tulip clone chip
147 Netgear FA310TX and other NICs using this Tulip clone chip
148 Tulip clones based on the ADMtek Centaur-P
149 Tulip clones based on the Macronix 987x5
158 Rhine-I, e.g. D-Link DFE-530TX
167 The description about how to use the support can be found in the GRUB
168 manual. Run "info grub" in the shell prompt.