On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Le ven. 18 mars 2016 08:30, Andrei Borzenkov <arvidj...@gmail.com> a écrit : >> >> Documentation says >> >> On sparc64 GRUB is unable to determine which server it was booted from. >> >> Could someone clarify what it means here? sparc64 is ieee1275 that >> supports auto configuration for network boot - at least, it has code >> to do it. So far the only platform where it is not possible seems to >> be uboot (which is also missing from Platform limitations section). > > AFAIR sparc 64 doesn't provide fields code for ieee1275 depends on. Moreover > sparc64 doesn't support booting via dhcp and works thorough rarp instead
Strictly speaking they boot via bootparams protocol, RARP is used for initial IP auto-configuration. Sun/Oracle servers support DHCP boot for quite some time; actually it is mandatory for Solaris 11 AI (automated installer). I am not sure whether they export this information in OBP though. Someone from Oracle listening here? _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
