Overview

Unleash the power of Qnet to boot your computer (i.e. client) over the network! You can do it when your machine doesn't have a local disk or large flash. In order to do this, you first need the GRUB executable. GRUB is the generic boot loader that runs at computer startup and is responsible for loading the OS into memory and starting to execute it.

During booting, you need to load the GRUB executable into the memory of your machine, by using:

Neutrino doesn't ship GRUB. To get GRUB:

  1. Go to www.gnu.org/software/grub website.
  2. Download the GRUB executable.
  3. Create a floppy or CD with GRUB on it, or put the GRUB binary on the server for downloading by a network boot ROM.

Here's what the PXE boot ROM does to download the OS image:

Here's an example to show the different steps to boot your client using PXE boot ROM: