On Tuesday 26 July 2005 20:41, Vincent Pelletier wrote: > I'm afraid a stage 1 -like thing will be needed on usparc.
You are right. On SparcStation, the firmware loads only 512 bytes like PC as a boot sector. So you need to make boot.img separately. The difference is that there is no "safe place" in SparcStation, and you can choose a sector to be loaded in the firmware. You can get some information from the web site of SILO: http://www.sparc-boot.org/how.html > I have found > few docs about the actual implementation of the disk boot process on > usparc, but it sounds like "load the second sector of disk, and run it" > (the first sectors is filled with the partition table). I still have no > success in making a bot floppy "by hand" (parted/fdisk + dd). I get a > magic number error, while the crc in the partition table should be > correct. I'll check that when I have more time, in 3~4 weeks. Which model do you have? I hear that most UltraSparc models cannot boot from a floppy due to a bug in OpenBoot. Therefore, when I installed GNU/Linux into a UltraSparc machine, I used netboot. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
