On 6/25/05, Cyril Plisko <Cyril.Plisko at cllf.com> wrote: > 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 > > 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. >
Thanks Cyril. I will go and have a look at it. Thus far the GRUB2 boot process on the ODW is not obvious. Dennis
