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
