Grub IA64

Grub IA64

[Chinces Diana]

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Hi all,
 
We would be very interested in replacing elilo  (the current Itanium boot 
loader) with grub. 

 
Could you help us with answering a few questions  about this boot loader?
1.       Can you tell us if this type of architecture is supported or will be 
supported? 

2.       Is there a way in which we could contribute on making this happen?
3.       How does chainloading behave on network boot? Is this possible?
 
Thanks, 
Diana chinces  



      

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Re: Grub IA64

[Bogdan]

Hi, Diana.

First of all, the Multiboot specification doesn't (yet) support Itanium and that 
is definetely something that needs work before we can say that GRUB has full 
support for this architecture. What do you mean by network chainloading, how do 
you expect to boot loader to behave exactly?

Cheers,
Bogdan

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From: Chinces Diana <chincesdiana@yahoo.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Sent: Wed, July 14, 2010 3:39:33 PM
Subject: Grub IA64




 




Hi all,
 
We would be very interested in replacing elilo  (the current Itanium boot 
loader) with grub. 

 
Could you help us with answering a few questions  about this boot loader?
1.       Can you tell us if this type of architecture is supported or will be 
supported? 

2.       Is there a way in which we could contribute on making this happen?
3.       How does chainloading behave on network boot? Is this possible?
 
Thanks, 
Diana chinces  


      

Re: Grub IA64

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

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On 07/14/2010 02:39 PM, Chinces Diana wrote:
First of all HTML e-mail are annoying and bad netiquette. Please adjust
your mailer
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> Hi all,
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> We would be very interested in replacing elilo (the current Itanium
> boot loader) with grub.
>
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> Could you help us with answering a few questions about this boot loader?
>
> 1.       Can you tell us if this type of architecture is supported or
> will be supported?
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Tristan Gringold wrote the port and sent the patches but it was during
the unmaintained period. When Robert Millan took over he imported the
patches and port is availabale from
http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/branches/ia64/ (bzr checkout).
Judging by code port looks fairly usable except module loading.
Unfortunately we have no testers so I can't say what happens if you try
to boot it. I've contacted someone from HP if I could eventually have a
IA64 workstation to finish the port.
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> 2.       Is there a way in which we could contribute on making this
> happen?
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Module loading. Additional loaders. And lots and lots of testing
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> 3.       How does chainloading behave on network boot? Is this possible?
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Chainloading is to be avoided unless really needed to. I recommend using
the native protocol (e.g. linux module for linux).
This is especially true for wacky platforms like EFI (never tested it on
IA64 but on ia32 and x64 it's PITN)
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> Thanks,
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> Diana chinces
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko



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Re: Grub IA64

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

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On 14.07.2010 14:39, Chinces Diana wrote:
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>
> 	
>
> Hi all,
>
>  
>
> We would be very interested in replacing elilo (the current Itanium
> boot loader) with grub.
>
>  
>
> Could you help us with answering a few questions about this boot loader?
>
> 1.       Can you tell us if this type of architecture is supported or
> will be supported?
>
I've merged yesterday IA64 support in experimental. Refer to my
yesterday announcement.
@Tristan: I filled many missing parts like e.g. grub-mkimage and module
loading support.
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> 2.       Is there a way in which we could contribute on making this
> happen?
>
> 3.       How does chainloading behave on network boot? Is this possible?
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
> Diana chinces
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Grub-devel mailing list
> Grub-devel@gnu.org
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko



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