Hi, We're currently in the planning stages for EFI firmware boot support, and that will most likely require us moving to GRUB2.
--S Quoting "C. Bergstr?m", who wrote the following on Fri, 8 May 2009: > Darren J Moffat wrote: >> C. Bergstr?m wrote: >>> >>> Hi.. I'm not exactly familiar with the ARC/sponsor process, but thought >>> I'd toss this out since Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko mentioned the >>> benefits of his port for grub2. >>> >>> I think by doing some sort of formal process we'll actually get feedback >>> about the best way to move forward. There are assumptions and limitations >>> with grub-0.97 that be possibly be addressed as well. >> >> I would, but this is more than just about ZFS so I would want to know that >> this has been reviewed by the code x86 boot team as well. I'd suggest >> asking on driver-discuss@ and on-discuss@ for contacts for that. > Thanks Darren, > > Dropping zfs-discuss and hoping that someone from the x86 boot team will see > this and help with code reviews/planning. I think moving to grub2 will give > a lot of benefits.. (raidz(2) boot, compressed rpool. etc..) > > > > ./C > > _______________________________________________ > on-discuss mailing list > on-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/on-discuss >
