On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 08:30:11PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes: > > >> Does GRUB work on anything other than i386? The Debian package > >> is an i386 only package. > > Ethan> its very i386 only. > > Just curious: What happens when the Hurd gets ported to other > platforms? > > AFAIK, Hurd *needs* Grub in order to boot, because it is the only one > which supports the required multiboot (or whatever it is called) > standard). then we port the multiboot stuff to yaboot, silo etc. thats much much easier then porting grub to $arch -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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