From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1DxVGd-0006R8-HA for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:39:07 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DxVGc-0006Qt-4Q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:39:06 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DxVGZ-0006Pg-Lh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:39:05 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DxVGZ-0006O6-3c for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:39:03 -0400 Received: from [212.43.237.68] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DxVNy-00054N-6r for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:46:42 -0400 Received: from ASSP-nospam (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0475CFE8AC71 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:35:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=ip6-localhost) by ASSP-nospam ; 26 Jul 05 19:35:30 -0000 From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:34:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200507242044.19861.okuji@enbug.org> <200507252116.41699.okuji@enbug.org> <42E683E5.6040303@yahoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <42E683E5.6040303@yahoo.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507262134.57591.okuji@enbug.org> Subject: Re: grub-install X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:39:06 -0000 On Tuesday 26 July 2005 20:41, Vincent Pelletier wrote: > I'm afraid a stage 1 -like thing will be needed on usparc. You are right. On SparcStation, the firmware loads only 512 bytes like PC as a boot sector. So you need to make boot.img separately. The difference is that there is no "safe place" in SparcStation, and you can choose a sector to be loaded in the firmware. You can get some information from the web site of SILO: http://www.sparc-boot.org/how.html > I have found > few docs about the actual implementation of the disk boot process on > usparc, but it sounds like "load the second sector of disk, and run it" > (the first sectors is filled with the partition table). I still have no > success in making a bot floppy "by hand" (parted/fdisk + dd). I get a > magic number error, while the crc in the partition table should be > correct. I'll check that when I have more time, in 3~4 weeks. Which model do you have? I hear that most UltraSparc models cannot boot from a floppy due to a bug in OpenBoot. Therefore, when I installed GNU/Linux into a UltraSparc machine, I used netboot. Okuji