Hi,
Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> I have no idea if they support booting over a
> CD-ROM or USB image. Does someone known if we can do so on a Loongson 3
> or Octeon machine?
Maybe one should ask grub-de...@gnu.org mailing list or
Vladimir Serbinenko directly.
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Option --format in
man grub-mkimage
shows several mips-ly names:
mipsel-yeeloong-flash, mipsel-fuloong2f-flash, mipsel-loongson-elf,
mips-arc, mipsel-arc
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man grub-mkrescue
talks of "big-endian MIPS machines".
Some day i must learn how GRUB2 prepares itself for the
run of grub-mkrescue and defines which xorrisofs options
to use.
Among these options are
-mips-boot /boot/grub/mips-arc/sashARCS
-mips-boot /boot/grub/mips-arc/sash
-mips-boot /boot/grub/mips-arc/grub
which activate these files (<iso-path>=<disk-path>):
/boot/grub/mips-arc/grub=${iso9660_dir}/boot/grub/mips-arc/core.img
/boot/grub/mips-arc/sashARCS=${iso9660_dir}/boot/grub/mips-arc/core.img
/boot/grub/mips-arc/sash=${iso9660_dir}/boot/grub/mips-arc/core.img
Two years ago there was no option -mipsel-boot to see.
I.e. only big-endians were supported.
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It may well be that the machines make no difference
between booting from CD and booting from hard disk.
At least the boot sectors of -mips-boot and -mipsel-boot
look much more like MBR than like El Torito.
So if we learn how grub-mkimage composes the image
for mipsel-loongson-elf, i could possibly teach libisofs
how to create the necessary boot record.
... if mipsel-loongson-elf is what boots Loongson 3.
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
