On 1/5/06, Joerg Schilling <schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > > Noah yan <noah.yan at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Grub2 supports ufs, but does not support disk slice (called partitions > > containing partitions in grub) as from features and todo list in grub2 > wiki. > > The good news is that grub2 realizes this and working on it. Solaris > (and > > bsd) slicing in legacy grub is from ( > > > http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/grub/grub-0.95/stage2/disk_io.c) > . > > Does GRUB2 support the Sun flavor of UFS or the *BSD flavor?
I did not test this feature and it was bsd flavor ( http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2004-05/msg00012.html) as back in May 2004. > So if choosing grub2+ufsboot, either wait for official grub2, > > or integerate slicing code of grub-0.95 into current grub2. In current > > stage, a temporary option could be: waiting for grub2 to be ready for > disk > > slicing and network boot, instead working on the system initialization > and > > boot code, put the compiled kernel in partitions and fs(such as ext) > that > > grub can access and boot it (but do we have the kernel ready :). When > grub2 > > is ready, sort out the boot part. Btw, grub2 next release with network > > support is around Mid May as from grub2 plan in wiki. > > > > In long term, I vote grub2+netboot and nfs root, which is elegant. Most > > codes are from ( > http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/stand/lib), > > but probably require the promif in src/psm > > As long as the booted kernel lives inside a RAM based bootarchive, we do > not > need UNIX slicing support. > > My gues is that this would help us 'till aprox. May/June. > > J?rg > > -- > EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 > Berlin > js at cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) > schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: > http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/powerpc-discuss/attachments/20060105/4498b196/attachment.html>
