I am trying to use grub2 to boot an IBM p520 power6 box. I know yaboot can do the job, but it doesn't deal with software raid, ext4, LVM or anything else useful.
I have managed to get as far as booting to a grub prompt from disk. Unfortunately it doesn't appear to be seeing any disks at that point. The way I got it this far was to create an 8MB (smallest cfdisk would make) PReP boot partition, and then run grub-mkimage -n -o /tmp/grub -O powerpc-ieee1275 *.mod in the ieee1275 grub directory. I then dd'd /tmp/grub to /dev/sda1 (the PReP boot partition). At boot, the firmware loads the partition and runs it and after a few seconds I get a grub prompt. I know I don't need all the modules, but starting with all of them seemed simpler. So is this supposed to work, or is there still some ofpath handling or other things that have to be fixed before grub2 can detect disks on this machine? If so, I will try to do it, but some hints would be handy. It certainly looks very close to working. Thanks. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel