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From: Tristan Gingold <tgingold@free.fr>
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 07:41:41PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Svante Signell <svante.signell@telia.com> writes:
> 
> > Any comments from the Grub development crew?
> >
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> >> From: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>
> >> To: Svante Signell <svante.signell@telia.com>, LinuxBIOS mailinglist
> >> <linuxbios@linuxbios.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] grub2 as payload [was: New wiki index page.]
> >> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:36:07 +0200
> >> 
> >> * Svante Signell <svante.signell@telia.com> [061025 09:05]:
> >> > On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 23:35 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> >> > > Great!
> >> > > 
> >> > > Now the only thing we should fix is
> >> > > http://www.linuxbios.org/index.php/Payloads
> >> > > where the list of possible payloads does not list Linux.
> >> > 
> >> > Sorry for jumping into this thread: What about grub2 (not grub legacy),
> >> > does it qualify as payload for LinuxBIOS?
> >> 
> >> In theory, yes, but grub2 is not there yet.
> >> 
> >> Two things are required to do this though:
> >> - add an ide driver in grub2. biosdisk is not the way to go.
> 
> Right, it should not be that hard to add an IDE driver.  You only have
> to focus on IDE driver development, not too much on integrating it
> into GRUB.
If you are interested, I have written an IDE driver for grub.  Not complete
but working.

Tristan.