2006/525: New Boot Sparc

[Joerg Schilling]

John Johnson <john.johnson at sun.com> wrote:

> Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> >>   
> > Speaking of SILO, I assume the Ubuntu UltraSPARC T1 port uses SILO?
> > 
>
> 	Yes, same as previous SPARC/Linux versions.  The SPARC/Linux lead is not
> a big grub fan, so the grub team would have to do the grub work to boot it.

I would not try to rely on SILO as it does not work with mkisofs. I did try to
help the authors of SILO to make it compliant 8 years ago to no avail. They 
have not been interested to change even 10-20 lines of code.

Jörg

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