Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS capable GRUB install from within Linux?
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:28 PM, David Abrahams d...@boostpro.com wrote: FWIW, I managed to build a source merge of the solaris grub-0.97 (with ZFS capability) and ubuntu's latest copy of grub-0.97 (with whatever patches they've backported into it). The sources are available at http://groups.google.com/group/zfs-fuse/web/grub.merge-0.97.tar.gz Of course, I'm not sure yet whether that's enough to boot linux from ZFS. In addition, you would have to build a Linux Miniroot (or whatever it is called) which supports ZFS. I've seen posts about work in this regard by early explorers a long time ago, but thought I'd wait till a few people actually got it to work before I looked at it any more! I quick google found: http://groups.google.com/group/zfs-fuse/browse_thread/thread/3e781ace9de600bc/230ca0608235e216?lnk=gstq=bootrnum=1pli=1 -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke My blog: http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS capable GRUB install from within Linux?
on Mon Dec 29 2008, David Abrahams dave-AT-boostpro.com wrote: on Tue Nov 11 2008, Mario Goebbels me-AT-tomservo.cc wrote: Is it possible to install a GRUB that can boot a ZFS root, but installing it from within Linux? I was planning on getting a new unmanaged dedicated server, which however only comes with Linux preinstalled. The thing has a software RAID1, so the cunning plan was to break up the RAID1, install VirtualBox RDP and install OpenSolaris onto the freed drive. The only roadblock is GRUB at that point, which would still reside on the existing Linux disk. Once OpenSolaris has been booted, I can recreate the mirror and do a proper GRUB install. Getting a IP-KVM attached to change BIOS settings is kind of the cost I'd want to avoid here. Any ideas? Hi Mario, Did you get anywhere with this? It occurs to me that I might get my Linux/ZFS-fuse server to be entirely ZFS. I'd really like to accomplish that if possible. FWIW, I managed to build a source merge of the solaris grub-0.97 (with ZFS capability) and ubuntu's latest copy of grub-0.97 (with whatever patches they've backported into it). The sources are available at http://groups.google.com/group/zfs-fuse/web/grub.merge-0.97.tar.gz Of course, I'm not sure yet whether that's enough to boot linux from ZFS. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS capable GRUB install from within Linux?
on Tue Nov 11 2008, Mario Goebbels me-AT-tomservo.cc wrote: Is it possible to install a GRUB that can boot a ZFS root, but installing it from within Linux? I was planning on getting a new unmanaged dedicated server, which however only comes with Linux preinstalled. The thing has a software RAID1, so the cunning plan was to break up the RAID1, install VirtualBox RDP and install OpenSolaris onto the freed drive. The only roadblock is GRUB at that point, which would still reside on the existing Linux disk. Once OpenSolaris has been booted, I can recreate the mirror and do a proper GRUB install. Getting a IP-KVM attached to change BIOS settings is kind of the cost I'd want to avoid here. Any ideas? Hi Mario, Did you get anywhere with this? It occurs to me that I might get my Linux/ZFS-fuse server to be entirely ZFS. I'd really like to accomplish that if possible. TIA, -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
