Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Personally I do not care about if GRUB is confusing for linux users.
>> As I see it, GRUB is not only a linux loader.
>
> I see that Mach also uses "root" as a kernel argument. I certainly
> agree that GRUB is not only a Linux loader. However I stron
On Apr 5, 2005, at 11:45 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
root is not a command but a variable in GRUB 2.
Actually, I see now that it is a command: grub_rescue_cmd_root() in
kern/rescue.c. Is that only a rescue mode thing? That seems to be
exactly what I need...
I've added a TestingOnPowerPC page to the wiki:
http://www.autistici.org/grub/moin.cgi/TestingOnPowerPC . I hope it's
enough information (including sample grub.cfg) to get curious hackers
to try it out...
Maybe we should add the wiki to
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2-support.en.html ?
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> root is not a command but a variable in GRUB 2.
>
> Actually, I see now that it is a command: grub_rescue_cmd_root() in
> kern/rescue.c. Is that only a rescue mode thing? That seems to be
> exactly what I need... aside from the very confusing use of
On Apr 5, 2005, at 2:02 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Vernon Mauery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Putting a restraint that says /boot/grub must be a separate
partition doesn't sound like a good idea. It just clutters the
partition table with another small partition.
For the apple this was always the case
On Apr 5, 2005, at 12:41 AM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 02:38 am, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
Can we have a shortcut to avoid specifying that "(hd,7)/" part
repeatedly? I think that was the "root" command in GRUB Legacy, which
was replaced by the "prefix" environment variable? B
On Apr 4, 2005, at 11:55 PM, Vernon Mauery wrote:
Hollis Blanchard wrote:
I've been thinking about how to install grub2 on an Open Firmware
system. Here's one possibility:
/boot -- Linux-native filesystem (e.g. ext3)
holds kernels, initrd, etc
/boot/grub -- firmware-native filesyste
On Apr 5, 2005, at 2:00 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
The other possibility is to have all of /boot as a firmware-native
filesystem. I think that's not ideal though, because those filesystems
(HFS+, FAT) might not support features like symlinks or Unix-style
Vernon Mauery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> The discussion is about automatically setting prefix.
>
> But if prefix is what root used to be (the location of the kernels,
> initrds, etc.) then I don't see how having a grub partition helps in
> setting this. It will help locate the grub binaries,
Marco Gerards wrote:
> Vernon Mauery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>If all it gains us is that we know where we booted from, we still
>>need to know where /boot is. I don't see what this gains us -- the
>>root command or prefix variable is still required. It sounds to me
>>that if you want to hav
> I've been thinking about how to install grub2 on an Open Firmware
> system. Here's one possibility:
> /boot -- Linux-native filesystem (e.g. ext3)
> holds kernels, initrd, etc
> /boot/grub -- firmware-native filesystem (on Mac HFS+, on others
> FAT, etc)
>
Vernon Mauery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Putting a restraint that says /boot/grub must be a separate
> partition doesn't sound like a good idea. It just clutters the
> partition table with another small partition.
For the apple this was always the case already. It is something we
can not cha
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The grub ELF file must live on a firmware-native filesystem. When run,
> it can find out what partition it was booted from, so that is a
> natural place to load grub.cfg from as well (and why not modules while
> we're at it?). Thus this is the value o
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