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Re: PPC executable name


From: Marco Gerards
Subject: Re: PPC executable name
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 13:21:03 +0200
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Nico -telmich- Schottelius <address@hidden> writes:

> Btw, what will the way you advise,
>    a) like yaboot, mount the bootstrap partiton only when writing config
>    b) or mount it as /boot, modifiy grub.cfg on it?
>
> I would like the later option, because as far as I understood, making
> changes to grub.cfg does not need any command execution, as grub
> (the binary, which can be loaded by of) didn't change.

Right, this (b) is what I would prefer as well.  GRUB loads grub.cfg
from the path configured by prefix (a GRUB variable).  This variable
is set automatically to the place grub (the OF binary) is loaded from,
and can be overridden in OF (if Hollis applies his patch).

--
Marco





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