Re: installing NETINST 20190127

[Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org>]

On 1/28/19 8:01 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 1/28/19 1:52 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> > @Rick:
> > I thought about something like this since Mark reported the bootstrap
> > limits in OpenBIOS. It could in principle work similar to the switch
> > between non-GPT and GPT capable SPARC hardware ([1]).
>
> I don't understand this argument. GRUB works on PowerPC Macs and is
> fully supported or am I missing something? I also works fine on SPARC
> hardware with Sun partition tables.
>
> Unless you want to install on very old SPARC hardware, there is no
> need to carry SILO around. Our tests have shown that GRUB works on
> any 64-bit SPARC hardware which means that anything going back to
> the mid-90ies is supported.

Has anyone tried a newer Oracle Netra T4 class server? I have one ( or
two ) of those in my life and could give it a whirl.  Not too sure how
to get it to boot over the network and I may have to resort to an actual
physical DVD however.

Dennis