Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>At some point in the past Cyril Plisko said :
>>As far as I know GRUB Legacy (0.9x series) won't work on PPC,
>>however GRUB 2 does work - I built it for ODW couple of months ago.
>>Since then they (GRUB 2 project) moved forward quite a bit so it must
>>be even better. You need Linux machine do built it, however.
>>(That shouldn't be a problem, - we all have Pegasos !)
>>Until we will port GRUB 2 to [cross] build it on Solaris we will have
>>to keep prebuilt binaries (shouldn't be a problem too)
>
>
> Getting GRUB2 built on the ODW was trivial. What is not obvious is
> the steps required to create a botable CDROM with it. I could attach
> a floppy device to the IDE controller .. perhaps. I will have to
> check with GENESI on that one but I would prefer to make a bootable
> CDROM which will then allow us to netboot from a tftpserver.
>
Dennis,
FYI -Hollis Blanchard just posted a PPC multiboot patches for GRUB2
to GRUB2 mailing list. You may want to look at it to evaluate the
applicability to Solaris newboot mechanism.
Regards,
Cyril
