Re: [Fwd: Re: [LinuxBIOS] grub2 as payload

[Marco Gerards]

Svante Signell <address@hidden> writes:

> Any comments from the Grub development crew?
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> From: Stefan Reinauer <address@hidden>
>> To: Svante Signell <address@hidden>, LinuxBIOS mailinglist
>> <address@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] grub2 as payload [was: New wiki index page.]
>> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:36:07 +0200
>> 
>> * Svante Signell <address@hidden> [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.

>> - add support for compiling grub2 as an elf image.

This is possible already.  If the ELF image has specific demands, it
will not be hard to make such changes.

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Marco