Hi there, Rick. (I am including the pkg-grub-devel list here, as it may be interesting to them).
On Jul 14 2010, Rick Thomas wrote: > I'm willing to give it a try on some of my test machines. > > How do I go about installing/testing Grub2 ? I wrote a summary of what I did some time ago: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2010/06/msg00028.html One particular point that may not be that obvious is that your current HFS partition may not be big enough to hold an initial grub2 image with all the modules (those found in /usr/lib/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/). Some of the modules may not be necessary, if you are only using something like ext{2,3,4} on your system: them, XFS, JFS, and Co. can be avoided to be included in that binary. Another thing that is worth noting is that the command to create that initial image seems to have been changed, and it should be grub-mkimage with a parameter --format=powerpc-ieee1275, instead of grub-mkelfimage. (Fear not: the comments above may not make sense if you have not yet tried to play with grub2, but they will after you read my e-mail listed above). Another slight problem that may make the automatic installation not so obvious is that the grub.cfg file will probably list the partition that you will be booting from as "(hd0,<foo>)", where it currently needs to be "(hd,<foo>)", without the zero after "hd". I don't know if the hd0 string that the grub configuration puts in the grub.cfg is used with/taken from OpenFirmware (in case it would be the hd alias that OpenFirmware uses for the disk), but flexibilizing this for systems that may have more than one HD would be desireable (i.e., stay with the numbering with the HDs). But that doesn't prevent one from using grub2 right now. Hope that this helps, -- Rogério Brito : rbr...@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://rb.doesntexist.org : Packages for LaTeX : algorithms.berlios.de DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100714233006.ga11...@ime.usp.br
