Hollis Blanchard can better answer this but I think I have most the answers for you..see below.
On 8/29/07, Proneet Biswas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > I am fairly new to the grub bootloader. So if the question is already > answered, please feel free to point me to the relevant pointers/FAQ. We are > trying to use GRUB on a new powerpc based platform for loading 2.6 linux > kernel. > Q1: Which is the latest stable version which I should start with ? Grab the latest cvs build. > Q2: Will this require openfirmware to be involved at any intermediate > stage of loading or GRUB would be able to directly load the kernel. Yes current powerpc port does require open firmware. http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnPowerPC > Q3: Are there any specific limitations on the kind of file systems or > storage media for loading kernel ? The grub have to be on a FAT filesystem so that Open Firmware can read them. I've only tested it with the kernel in the same filesystem. But since grub can read ext3 I see no reason why it shouldn't be able to read the kernel from another partition formated ext3...though I have not tried this. > > > Regards > Proneet. > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
