On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Martin Bochnig <mar...@martux.org> wrote:
> 2009/5/8 Seth Goldberg <seth.goldb...@sun.com>: > > Hi, > > > > We're currently in the planning stages for EFI firmware boot support, > and > > that will most likely require us moving to GRUB2. > > > Amazing, looking forward to it. > Because I would like to connect x86/x64 1TB USB boot hdds to SPARC > systems from time to time, as huge storage, for consolidating old > backups. > With UFS it was not possible due to opposite endianness. > With ZFS it is possible, but not with Sun VTOC, only with EFI ... > ... which in turn is not yet bootable on Solaris x86/x64. grub2 has support to boot from gpt on both afi and bios machines Now I have a patch which allows to boot multiboot kernels on top of efi32. efi64 needs some modifications to multiboot trampoline but nothing that we this won't be difficult to implelement. > As my > laptop-hdd die a month ago, I depend on the USB hdds being bootable > system disks. Since the 2nd identical hdd (of the two) is a mirror, my > only choice for now is NFS over slow 100MBit/Sec. For the future it > sounds as if it could be a Grub2 based OpenSolaris? Cool. > > > %martin > -- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko -- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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