Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at gmail.com> wrote:
> What makes the GRUB2 so attractive is that it makes us independent from
> ufsboot.
> It fetches the ramdisk image into the memory and runs from there. Which let us
> have a working system even without ATA disk driver. the GRUB2 itself, indeed,
As long as we are happy with a diskless boot, it would be possible to have a
GRUB-less boot using inetboot (NFS)
> uses the OF-client interface to access disk (or network [coming soon]).
> So I am not sure we need to invest in making ufsboot work on Peg.
> What IS important (IMHO) is to support Solaris disk label natively in
> SmartFirmware.
> Solaris today groks two (three ?)types of labels - on SPARC it is Sun' VTOC,
> on x86 it is FDISK partitions with VTOC encapsulated inside SOLARIS FDISK
> partition. And another universally applicable partition type is EFI (aka
> GPT).
> It (EFI) works on both SPARC and x86 and looks like a good choice for future
> development. I am not sure who's responsibility it is to support EFI
Labeling support would not be needed as long as we do not like to mount
a hard disk based root FS.
J?rg
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