Andrei Warkentin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Andrei,
> There is another issue with GRUB2 on OS X which I am not sure has > been brought up yet. > Right now, AFAIK (but I haven't tested it), GRUB2 (the part that runs > from OpenFrimware) can be built > with a bootstrap powerpc-elf-targetted GCC hosted on OS X. However, > the local GRUB2 binary (one that can run > from OS X and perform installation and some such) needs to be > compiled with the OS X compiler. Why? OS X doesn't use ELF - > it uses Mach-O. If you want to be able to build GRUB2 in OS X with > purely the OS X GCC, then the build procedure must take into account > the Mach-O > output format. AFAIK, new OpenFirmware versions (3.x) can boot Mach-O > binaries but I haven't had a chance to experiment with this yet. You mean the utilities like grub-setup, grub-mkimage, grub-emu, etc? They should be able to run on macos, right? Of perhaps I am missing your point. If those utilities can be build in a better way so nothing breaks and it will work on macos, I am quite interested in hearing how to solve that. Mach-O binaries for booting is a different subject. We rely on ELF files, grub-mkimage even creates ELF files and uses ELF load segments. Without it GRUB just won't work, unless grub-mkimage is changed intensively. So it seems easier just to use ELFs in any case. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
