From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.34) id 1BOWyR-0007ag-MJ for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 03:19:15 -0400 Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BOWyN-0007Xu-Nh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 03:19:11 -0400 Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BOWxp-0007IC-SS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 03:19:09 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BOWui-0006ER-88 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 03:15:24 -0400 Received: from localhost (charlie.han.nl [145.74.66.9]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACCBA858F; Fri, 14 May 2004 09:15:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by localhost (charlie.han.nl [145.74.66.9]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13805-01; Fri, 14 May 2004 09:15:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6703844D; Fri, 14 May 2004 09:15:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from india.han.nl (india.han.nl [145.74.103.15]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67649C047; Fri, 14 May 2004 08:15:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: by india.han.nl (Postfix, from userid 48) id C8A897865; Fri, 14 May 2004 09:15:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 145.74.169.60 ( [145.74.169.60]) as user metgerards@localhost by webmail.han.nl with HTTP; Fri, 14 May 2004 09:15:17 +0200 Message-ID: <1084518917.40a47205a7209@webmail.han.nl> Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 09:15:17 +0200 From: "M. Gerards" To: Shudong Zhou References: <200405132225.i4DMP46t149973@billybob.eng.sun.com> In-Reply-To: <200405132225.i4DMP46t149973@billybob.eng.sun.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.1 X-Originating-IP: 145.74.169.60 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new@vscan-cn.han.nl Cc: grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: UFS support X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 07:19:13 -0000 Quoting Shudong Zhou : > I'm an engineer at Sun. We are looking at making Solaris x86 > Multiboot compliant and use GRUB to boot Solaris. That is really nice to hear. At the moment I am thinking about changing the multiboot protocol, or writing multiboot v2 or so. At the moment multiboot is PC only, GRUB will be ported to other architectures, GNU/Hurd will and we need multiboot support on those architectures as well. (Don't take this as something official, we still need to discuss this more) I will work on this during my summer vacation. Of course I will discuss that on this list, help will be welcome. But you can start using multiboot right away, GRUB will continue to have multiboot support (AFAIK). > I have developed UFS module based on GRUB legacy 0.93 and also > have it understand Solaris VTOC. I'll be happy to share what > I have. I haven't had a chance to look at GRUB 2 yet. It would be nice to know what the differences are compared to the UFS as it is used by BSD. It would be useful to have some documentation about this and a test filesystem. If you can send me that, it will help me a lot. Thanks, Marco