On 25/04/2019 06:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 4/25/19 7:23 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >> Oh wait, now I see it: SILO's isofs.b also includes a mini-ISO9660 driver to >> enable >> the PROM to read from the CDROM. So given that grub on SPARC64 is already >> working for >> a disk install then this aspect should already have been solved i.e. either >> the grub >> kernel is located on a separate UFS slice within a sun partition or >> somewhere there >> is an enhanced boot.S with another FS driver? > > Yes, that would be most likely the sparc64.elf image that grub-mkimage > produces. But > I don't know yet how to encode the boot path for that into the bootable image.
I'm struggling to see from the man pages the relationship between sparc64.elf and cdboot.img. Presumably grub-mkimage generates sparc64.elf which is a self-contained grub executable, whilst cdboot.img is the compiled version of boot.S? ATB, Mark.
