Re: Update Multiboot spec

2005-07-08 Thread Cyril Plisko
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: On Friday 08 July 2005 08:57, James Buchanan wrote: I'd be glad to help if I can. I'm working on some GRUB-2 code at the moment, studying it and trying to figure out some video card stuff. I think we need to list up what information must be passed by a boot loader

[SFS breaks PPC build] Re: GRUB 1.91 is released

2005-10-15 Thread Cyril Plisko
On 10/15/05, Yoshinori K. Okuji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 1.91. This is the second of > our prereleases leading up to GRUB 2.0. We encourage you to try it, as > we have done a significant amount of work towards GRUB 2. Note that this > release is mainly

Re: [SFS breaks PPC build] Re: GRUB 1.91 is released

2005-10-16 Thread Cyril Plisko
On 10/16/05, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/16/05, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cyril Plisko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > apparently sfs addition breaks PPC build. The attached patch fixed it for > > >

Re: [SFS breaks PPC build] Re: GRUB 1.91 is released

2005-10-16 Thread Cyril Plisko
On 10/16/05, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cyril Plisko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> > I just committed the regenerated powerpc-ieee1275.mk to CVS. > >> > > >> > >> Does this mean that I can pull a new downlo

Re: [SFS breaks PPC build] Re: GRUB 1.91 is released

2005-10-16 Thread Cyril Plisko
On 10/16/05, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cyril Plisko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 10/16/05, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Cyril Plisko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> &

Re: Sparc bootblock

2005-10-17 Thread Cyril Plisko
On 10/17/05, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bart Grantham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - verify that the code works on PPC, and if not, try to make it work > > so that there's a unified bootblock [not sure if this is reasonable as > > I'm not as familiar with how PPC OF boots... ho

Re: grub2 multiboot for ppc and system initalization

2005-12-30 Thread Cyril Plisko
> > > As in x86 and sparc, the multiboot strap is basically not the real kernel, > > but a loader to load ramdisk and initializer of system before exitto unix > > module. Here comes several choices about the system initialization: > > Can you explain that? Usually the kernel loaded by multiboot *i