On 4/25/19 8:07 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >> 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?
Yes, sparc64.elf is the boot image created by grub-mkimage and whose bootpath needs to be passed to the initial boot loader. I'm looking now at Oracle's Linux images for SPARC to figure out how they boot: > http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/packages/linux-oracle-sparc/6.9UEK4/OL-201707062043-R6-U9-sparc-dvd.iso Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
