> On Mar 6, 2019, at 3:52 AM, Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 05:34:01PM -0800, Eric Snowberg wrote: >> Add BIOS Boot Partition support for sparc64 platforms. This will work a >> little different than x86. With GPT, both the OBP "load" and "boot" commands >> are partition aware and neither command can see the partition table. >> Therefore >> the entire boot-loader is stored within the BIOS Boot Partition and nothing >> is stored within the bootstrap code area of MBR. >> >> To use it, the end user will issue the boot command with the path pointing to >> the BIOS Boot Partition. >> >> For example with the disk below: >> >> Model: Unknown (unknown) >> Disk /dev/nvme1n1: 1600GB >> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B >> Partition Table: gpt >> >> Number Start End Size File system Name Flags >> 1 1049kB 1075MB 1074MB ext3 >> 2 1075MB 1076MB 1049kB bios_grub >> 3 1076MB 1600GB 1599GB lvm >> >> To boot grub2 from OBP, you would use: >> >> boot /pci@302/pci@1/pci@0/pci@13/nvme@0/disk@1:b >> >> Signed-off-by: Eric Snowberg <eric.snowb...@oracle.com> > > Have you tested this patch on the other platforms? > If yes then I am OK with the patch. >
It has been tested on x86 and SPARC. It is my understanding that x86 and SPARC are the only two platforms that can use this file. If that is not correct, let me know. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
