On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 02:08:19PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: >On Wed, Jun 26, 2013, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: >> Has anybody investigated using something like OpenFirmware as an >> intermediate boot loader? If that were in internal Flash then it >> should be possible to load the kernel from external storage- > >Yeah; I didn't have time to try it out, but there's also a WIP GRUB port >for U-Boot done by Leif Lindholm which might be suitable for U-Boot >platforms (N2100 is RedBoot based though). That is, you load GRUB >as an n-stage bootloader instead of loading a kernel.
Leif says it depends on the u-boot API being configured in for GRUB to be able to use it. Worth checking if it's available on the smaller systems... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James D. Nicoll -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130626123625.ga18...@einval.com
