zfs discuss - May 2009 - Anyone willing to sponsor an ARC case for grub2?

Hi.. I''m not exactly familiar with the ARC/sponsor process, but thought
I''d toss this out since Vladimir ''phcoder'' Serbinenko
mentioned the
benefits of his port for grub2.

I think by doing some sort of formal process we''ll actually get
feedback
about the best way to move forward.  There are assumptions and 
limitations with grub-0.97 that be possibly be addressed as well.

Thanks


./Christopher

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C. Bergstr?m wrote:
> 
> Hi.. I''m not exactly familiar with the ARC/sponsor process, but
thought
> I''d toss this out since Vladimir ''phcoder''
Serbinenko mentioned the
> benefits of his port for grub2.
> 
> I think by doing some sort of formal process we''ll actually get
feedback
> about the best way to move forward.  There are assumptions and 
> limitations with grub-0.97 that be possibly be addressed as well.
I would, but this is more than just about ZFS so I would want to know 
that this has been reviewed by the code x86 boot team as well.  I''d 
suggest asking on driver-discuss@ and on-discuss@ for contacts for that.

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Darren J Moffat

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Martin Bochnig <martin at martux.org>
wrote:
> 2009/5/8 Seth Goldberg <Seth.Goldberg at sun.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  We''re currently in the planning stages for EFI firmware boot
support,
> and
> > that will most likely require us moving to GRUB2.
>
>
> Amazing, looking forward to it.
> Because I would like to connect x86/x64 1TB USB boot hdds to SPARC
> systems from time to time, as huge storage, for consolidating old
> backups.
> With UFS it was not possible due to opposite endianness.
> With ZFS it is possible, but not with Sun VTOC, only with EFI  ...
> ...  which in turn is not yet bootable on Solaris x86/x64.
grub2 has support to boot from gpt on both afi and bios machines
Now I have a patch which allows to boot multiboot kernels on top of efi32.
efi64 needs some modifications to multiboot trampoline but nothing that we
this won''t be difficult to implelement.
> As my
> laptop-hdd die a month ago, I depend on the USB hdds being bootable
> system disks. Since the 2nd identical hdd (of the two) is a mirror, my
> only choice for now is NFS over slow 100MBit/Sec. For the future it
> sounds as if it could be a Grub2 based OpenSolaris? Cool.
>
>
> %martin
>


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Regards
Vladimir ''phcoder'' Serbinenko



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Regards
Vladimir ''phcoder'' Serbinenko
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