On 07/14/2010 02:39 PM, Chinces Diana wrote: First of all HTML e-mail are annoying and bad netiquette. Please adjust your mailer > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > We would be very interested in replacing elilo (the current Itanium > boot loader) with grub. > > > > Could you help us with answering a few questions about this boot loader? > > 1. Can you tell us if this type of architecture is supported or > will be supported? > Tristan Gringold wrote the port and sent the patches but it was during the unmaintained period. When Robert Millan took over he imported the patches and port is availabale from http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/branches/ia64/ (bzr checkout). Judging by code port looks fairly usable except module loading. Unfortunately we have no testers so I can't say what happens if you try to boot it. I've contacted someone from HP if I could eventually have a IA64 workstation to finish the port. > > 2. Is there a way in which we could contribute on making this > happen? > Module loading. Additional loaders. And lots and lots of testing > > 3. How does chainloading behave on network boot? Is this possible? > > > Chainloading is to be avoided unless really needed to. I recommend using the native protocol (e.g. linux module for linux). This is especially true for wacky platforms like EFI (never tested it on IA64 but on ia32 and x64 it's PITN) > > Thanks, > > Diana chinces > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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