Hi, As a few folks probably know I'm playing with Gentoo on some XBox hardware. My interest is in XBox as a standard PC - not a gaming platform. I am using Gentoo-XBox but I have a more global question and am looking for a specific answer about boot loaders. Thanks in advance.
The specific question: Will grub work on all X86 machines (and non-X86 for that matter) or is grub limited to some specific set of hardware devices? In my case I have an XBox with a mod chip installed. This mod chip allows me to completely bypass the M$ BIOS and boot a different BIOS installed in the mod chip. Effectively the machine has two completely separate BIOS's installed and depending on which front panel switch you push at boot time (either the power for M$ or the disk eject for mod chip) you boot with either the M$ BIOS or the mod chip BIOS. The mod chip BIOS does not depend on any files or information on the M$ XBox disk partitions. I have removed the XBox disk, set it completely aside for safe keeping and then installed Gentoo-XBox on a new drive. Booting from the mod chip BIOS the machine finds any bootable DVD I've tried so far, including both the standard Gentoo disc as well as the Gentoo-XBox and GentooX and WinXP discs. I used the Gentoo-XBox DVD and the installation has gone completely normally. Great so far. However, and this is important. from earlier tests I know that Cromwell does NOT work on this revision of the XBox. I would like to install and use grub in an absolutely normal way for a PC. Will it work? If I try it and it doesn't work can I actually remove grub and go some other direction (Cromwell update) later? The basic install on this machine is done and I'm at the install your boot loader step. I'll hang tight and see what the verdict is. Thanks in advance, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
