On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:18:56 +1100 (EST), "Finn Thain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I just Googled up some of your work on grub 2, and wanted to ask a couple > of questions. You see, I ran into that bug in the biege g3 firmware that > prevents booting an OS not installed in the first 8 GB. So my question > is, > does grub 2 work on oldworld machines? If so, can it boot OS 9, OS X and > Linux? Should I create a partition for a future grub 2 stage?
Hi Finn, I hope you don't mind if I CC the grub-devel mailing list (and sorry for the mail resend issues). GRUB2 does not currently work on Old World PowerMacs. It will require some effort to change that; in particular we will need to write a stage1 loader of our own, similar to quik's stage1. That code needs to fit in 512 bytes, so will have to be done in assembly. Actually, I started Old World support by just using quik's stage1. Unfortunately that is limited to loading only 64KB of stage2, and grub2 is over 200KB the last time I looked. This on my TODO list, but pretty low on my list. I would be more than happy to help anybody interested in the problem. -Hollis _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
