Hello Thomas.
Grub is currently very PC-specific code. When the project was born the
main goal was implementing a boot loader that can work with the several
OS's you find in the PC arena, while offering a standardized interface so
every OS could follow the specs and be able to be booted by
A good idea to see in GRUB a protable boot loader. But we have to
consider, that workstations for example already have boot monitors
with complex functionality, for example handling the system environment.
So my idea is, that GRUB should also learn all the addition features
of the different
I comment on the issue a bit. As Christoph pointed out, one of the
features in GRUB is that it is (relatively) user-friendly. And, we
say, "GRUB is useful for experts like OS developers
simultaneously". But is the latter really true?
The strategy used in GRUB is to _pass information_ about
I have to say, that I don't know very much of Sun boot monitor, except
for that, the I called help and read about the commands on my
workstation (Sun SparcStation 5). But what I could see, that it is
possible to setup enviornmental settings. This is the only thing I
miss under GRUB. On the target
OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
...
The strategy used in GRUB is to _pass information_ about hardware
and user input data to an OS image, while the strategy used in both
Open Firmware and EFI is to _give interfaces_ to access hardware. In
other words, GRUB provides higher level interfaces to an
Christoph Plattner writes:
CP But it would be a nice enhancement to support also an environment
CP block additional to the command line parameters
CP This only should be a "kick" for our design brain
CP stroming... this is no requirement !
Figure's O namesystem addresses this issue
From: "Thomas T. Soares" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: About grub feature
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 20:57:21 -0200
It would be nice to know what is EFI... could someone point me a URL
about
it?
http://developer.intel.com/technology/efi/efi.
Greetings...
I have been using the Yellow Dog Linux in a RS6000-F50 IBM server but
about some time... Until now no one was able to manage the boot from
HD because these machines use the Open Firmware "BIOS"...
The reference is this:
