Re: GRUB plans...

[Christoph Plattner]

The OpenBoot is a very interesting boot monitor and I really like it.
But for loading kernels, the boot loader always has to load an loader
before. For Linux it is SILO, for netbooting any OS (Linux, SunOS),
a loader (mini kernel) is loaded which then changes to NFS load the
kernel for the OS itself.

With GRUB we have the chance to have a very good all in one solution
loading ELF, Linux and kernels following the multiboot spec. Further
netboot and local boot can be controlled conveniently. Further BOOTP/
DHCP can be used instead of this RARP stuff of the old days.

The only thing I wish is not to "replace" OpenBoot by GRUB.We should
think about a solution of intergration of OpenBoot and GRUB, but in
the moment I have no idea, how this can be made...

Bye
        Christoph P.


Mario Klebsch wrote:
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> On Saturday, 13. October 2001 06:51, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
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> > > Finally, in my own OS experiments, I'm starting to look at
> > > multi-arch support, and have been starting to consider how to make
> > > GRUB work with, say, the Mac PPC and other environments.  The Mac
> > > booting world is something of a mess, so having some way to make it
> > > consistent for them might be a service there too...
> >
> > I agree. Personally I want to have UltraSparc support, though... ;)
> 
> Hey, what is wrong with openboot/openfirmware? I always liked the
> booting capabilities of the SPARC firmware and was estonished to find
> almost the same firmware in my Macintosh.
> 
> 73, Mario
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