[coreboot] GRUB2 Questions

Joe joe at settoplinux.org
Thu May 8 20:06:46 CEST 2008




On Thu, 8 May 2008 19:43:47 +0200, Patrick Georgi <patrick at georgi-clan.de>
wrote:
> Am Thu, 08 May 2008 13:32:11 -0400
> schrieb Joe <joe at settoplinux.org>:
>> Are there any plans to load GRUB2's grub.cfg from a hard disk. This
>> would make it editable to the end user. I think it is kind of
>> important for a Multiboot Loader.
> bug #96 on our tracker (assigned to me) is about being able to
> configure the default location for grub.cfg. I'll work on it, once I
> got USB storage done. which brings me to..
> 
>> Also is there any status update on GRUB2 booting UHCI?
> GRUB2 read disk size and sectors from (QEmu emulated) usb storage
> devices for the first time this morning. This was just some test on
> device initialization, but still.
> My next step is to make it available from grub2 as normal disk, which
> might happen before saturday evening.
> 
> For the time being, that code still profits from qemu's emulation being
> relaxed in some areas, so it will take some more days to make it ready
> for general consumption (ie. real hardware).
> 
> 
Exellent! Great to hear Patrick:-)
Keep up the great work!
If there is anything I can do to help out let me know.

-- 
Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org





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