On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 05:34:01PM -0800, Eric Snowberg wrote: > Add BIOS Boot Partition support for sparc64 platforms. This will work a > little different than x86. With GPT, both the OBP "load" and "boot" commands > are partition aware and neither command can see the partition table. > Therefore > the entire boot-loader is stored within the BIOS Boot Partition and nothing > is stored within the bootstrap code area of MBR. > > To use it, the end user will issue the boot command with the path pointing to > the BIOS Boot Partition. > > For example with the disk below: > > Model: Unknown (unknown) > Disk /dev/nvme1n1: 1600GB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > Partition Table: gpt > > Number Start End Size File system Name Flags > 1 1049kB 1075MB 1074MB ext3 > 2 1075MB 1076MB 1049kB bios_grub > 3 1076MB 1600GB 1599GB lvm > > To boot grub2 from OBP, you would use: > > boot /pci@302/pci@1/pci@0/pci@13/nvme@0/disk@1:b > > Signed-off-by: Eric Snowberg <eric.snowb...@oracle.com>
Have you tested this patch on the other platforms? If yes then I am OK with the patch. Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
