On 2/16/06, Ken Mays <maybird1776 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Noah,
>
> I've uploaded grub2_cvs021606_kmays.tar.bz2 to 
> http://www.blastwave.org/testing
> which is the work I'll also use for this test along with Dennis' build
> listed in his article.


Regarding grub2 and firmware bootstrap (also to Jeremy, Thanks for update
PolarisBootstrap wiki), the boot conf call (notes
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=4992&tstart=15)
summerize them. But we do need grub2 when we have a self-hosting polaris
installed.

Using SmartFirmware v1.2 [20050602111451]

Welcome to SmartFirmware(tm) for bplan Pegasos2 version 1.2 (20050602111451)

ok devalias
Alias                Device Path
-----------------------------------------------------------
eth                  /pci at 80000000/ethernet at D
geth                 /ethernet/port1
ide                  /pci at 80000000/ide at C,1/disk at 0,0
hd                   /pci at 80000000/ide at C,1/disk at 0,0
ide0                 /pci@ 80000000/ide at C,1/cdrom at 1,0
cd                   /pci at 80000000/ide at C,1/cdrom at 1,0
screen               /bootconsole
keyboard             /pci at 80000000/isa at C/keyboard at i60

are those variable such as load-base, real-mode, auto-boot works in
smartfirmware? they are ieee1275 standard. Can you setup smartfirmware as a
telnet server (like " enet:telnet,<server-ip>" io) and telnet to it? If so,
can you printout a list of env and dev list?
Thanks



> ok printenv boot-device
> boot-device           hd:0               (eth)
>
> ok boot cd boot.img
> ISO-9960 filesystem: System-ID: "SOLARIS" Volume-ID: "Solaris 5.11 ppc"
> ...
> no such file boot.img
>
> ok show-devs
> /pci at 800000000/usb5,1 (usb)
> /pci at 800000000/usb5,2
> /pci at 800000000/usb at C,2 (usb)
> /pci at 800000000/usb at C,3 (usb)
> /pci at 800000000/ethernet at D (network)
>
> ok ls cpus
> PowerPC 74x7
> ---
> >From here I usually can see all of the devices and there is the tftp
> package.


On my power mac G4, I load the elf from ofw by a command like "load
enet:<tftp-server-ip>,inetboot.elf" , I am sure this should work for
smartfirmware. I begin to hate the powermac g4, it seems not allow me to
change the load-base and auto-boot.



> We thought of booting Solaris from a USB stick instead of CD so we didn't
> have to worry about the CD burning (and we get to use 1GB USB sticks).

usb boot is great, but I still prefer tftp boot. :)

Noah

> I'll revisit this later today.
>
> ~K
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