[LinuxBIOS] GRUB 2 and LinuxBIOS

[Robert Millan]

Hi

I'm glad to announce that as of current CVS, GRUB 2 officialy supports
LinuxBIOS.  There are still a few remaining issues, but most of the meat is
there right now.

Please could someone update the wiki?  (or give me perms to do it)

Thanks!

Quoting Robert Millan :
> Hi
>
> I'm glad to announce that as of current CVS, GRUB 2 officialy supports
> LinuxBIOS.  There are still a few remaining issues, but most of the meat is
> there right now.
>
> Please could someone update the wiki?  (or give me perms to do it)
>
> Thanks!
>
> <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call!
> <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?
> (as seen on /.)

Do you mean GRUB2 as a Payload? If so, SWEET!!
Great work.

Thanks - Joe

[Stefan Reinauer]

[e-mail] wrote:
> Do you mean GRUB2 as a Payload? If so, SWEET!!
> Great work.

Yes, thanks to Patrick Georgi who did this as a Google Summer of Code
project.

Kudos to him for the great job. Without Patrick, LinuxBIOS wouldn't be
where it is now.

See the official GRUB2 on LinuxBIOS page for information about it, it's
been there for a couple of months:

http://linuxbios.org/GRUB2

Stefan

Quoting Stefan Reinauer :
> [e-mail] wrote:
> > Do you mean GRUB2 as a Payload? If so, SWEET!!
> > Great work.
>
> Yes, thanks to Patrick Georgi who did this as a Google Summer of Code
> project.
>
> Kudos to him for the great job. Without Patrick, LinuxBIOS wouldn't be
> where it is now.
>
> See the official GRUB2 on LinuxBIOS page for information about it, it's
> been there for a couple of months:
> http://linuxbios.org/GRUB2
>
>
> Stefan

Oh, I have been following the page on the wiki, but I was under the  
asumption that is was still being developed:-)

Thanks - Joe

[ron minnich]

Robert, would grub2 under linuxbios be able to boot QNX?

thanks

ron

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 05:47:46PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> Robert, would grub2 under linuxbios be able to boot QNX?

I'm not familiar with QNX, but it seems like on grub-pc it's loaded via
chainloader.  Normaly this means it uses BIOS calls; this is not the case
here?

In that case it would make sense to enable the chainloader command.  I was
under the impression it would only be useful on BIOS.

[Stefan Reinauer]

Robert Millan wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm glad to announce that as of current CVS, GRUB 2 officialy supports
> LinuxBIOS.  There are still a few remaining issues, but most of the meat is
> there right now.

Oh thank you very much for merging Patrick Georgi's work. I think he did
a really great job.

What about
- the outstanding fixes for grub-mkimage
- linuxbios table support
- proper serial console handling
- larfs support
- (rom) support?
> Please could someone update the wiki?  (or give me perms to do it)

Yes, we'll be glad to do this as soon as LinuxBIOS is properly supported
by GRUB2.

Thanks for working so hard on Patricks code to make it happen.

Stefan

[Jordan Crouse]

On 01/11/07 13:04 +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> > Please could someone update the wiki?  (or give me perms to do it)
>
> Yes, we'll be glad to do this as soon as LinuxBIOS is properly supported
> by GRUB2.

When that happens, can I talk somebody into adding grub2 as a
buildROM payload too?

Jordan

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Jordan Crouse
Systems Software Development Engineer 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.