Quoting Michal Suchanek, who wrote the following on Wed, 9 Sep 2009:

> HEllo
>
> 2009/9/9 Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>:
>> Am Mittwoch, den 09.09.2009, 17:07 +0300 schrieb Lars Nooden:
>>> I see that all new work is on Grub2.  What timeline is there for
>>> bringing the pxegrub functionality forward to grub2 from legacy grub?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> -Lars
>>>
>>
>> I don't know what pxegrub can do, but GRUB 2 has PXE support:
>> http://grub.enbug.org/PXEBOOT
>>
>
> This would suffice for reading config and/or default from tftp so the
> boot selection can be changed remotely on systems that have PXE.
>
> Is it possible to do something similar on systems that do not have PXE
> (ie systems without PXE BIOS or Apple EFI)?

   Have you looked at gPXE? http://etherboot.org/wiki/index.php

  --S