Noah yan <noah.yan at gmail.com> wrote: > Grub2 supports ufs, but does not support disk slice (called partitions > containing partitions in grub) as from features and todo list in grub2 wiki. > The good news is that grub2 realizes this and working on it. Solaris (and > bsd) slicing in legacy grub is from ( > http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/grub/grub-0.95/stage2/disk_io.c).
Does GRUB2 support the Sun flavor of UFS or the *BSD flavor? > So if choosing grub2+ufsboot, either wait for official grub2, > or integerate slicing code of grub-0.95 into current grub2. In current > stage, a temporary option could be: waiting for grub2 to be ready for disk > slicing and network boot, instead working on the system initialization and > boot code, put the compiled kernel in partitions and fs(such as ext) that > grub can access and boot it (but do we have the kernel ready :). When grub2 > is ready, sort out the boot part. Btw, grub2 next release with network > support is around Mid May as from grub2 plan in wiki. > > In long term, I vote grub2+netboot and nfs root, which is elegant. Most > codes are from (http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/stand/lib), > but probably require the promif in src/psm As long as the booted kernel lives inside a RAM based bootarchive, we do not need UNIX slicing support. My gues is that this would help us 'till aprox. May/June. J?rg -- EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js at cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
