Upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 LTS (BORKED)

[Christopher Chan]

On Monday, September 13, 2010 10:06 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>>
>> I did not look seriously before, but does grub2 have serial support? I
>> know it does not have PXE or network support. In some ways, grub2 is a
>> regression.
>
> grub2 does have serial support (you have to remember to create a
> ttyS0.conf; the equivalent of adding a ttyS0 line in inittab in the
> past) and I vaguely remember that there is pxe boot but only for bios
> boxes not for efi ones or others; vaguely.
>

Well, what do you know, it seems to actually support PXE directly too. I 
take it it means no more drivers per chip to compile into grub needed 
like it did with grub or rather pxegrub?