Re: Creating sparc64 installation images
Silo works great
We are very close to finishing grub2 for sparc as well and once that's tested we are going to switch to grub2 for Linux for sparc so then we can do netboot
> On Dec 24, 2015, at 12:27 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
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>> On 12/24/2015 12:43 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> I'm not in a position to try this right now, but the last time I looked
>> at it- Spring 2014- it required ufsboot which is no longer shipped with
>> Solaris.
>
>> From the relase notes of "Linux for SPARC 1.0" from Oracle [1]:
>
> "The silo package installs the SILO boot loader. SILO installs in the
> system's boot block. You can configure it to boot Linux for SPARC,
> Oracle Solaris, and SunOS."
>
> So it is supposed to work, apparently, according to Oracle.
>
> Adrian
>
>> [1]
> https://oss.oracle.com/linux-sparc/docs/RELEASE-NOTES-1.0-en.html#ol_chgs_sparc
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