Bart Grantham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Heh. I looked into this and I'm definitely going the init-program > route. I don't think that there's a platform independent way of doing > relocation and I don't really feel that it's in the spirit of OF > anyways. Besides, writing F-Code is mind-bending enough as it is. :)
For loading grubof you do not need to relocate anything. >>>- verify that the code works on PPC, and if not, try to make it work so >>>that there's a unified bootblock [not sure if this is reasonable as I'm >>>not as familiar with how PPC OF boots... how similiar is it to Sparc?] >> I think this one can't be done without making the FCode grow quite >> big. > > Perhaps. But I'll try for it anyways because if it's possible, I'd > like to have it as a workable alternative for PPC users who aren't > using a filesystem their PROM understands. For example, someone > porting ReactOS (NTFS) or HaikuOS (BFS) to PPC. (Hey! Don't > laugh... it could happen! ;) ) In that case people usually create a filesystem and put GRUB on it. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel