Re: Bug#927892: grub-ieee1275-bin: Please add bootinfo.txt for sparc and sparc64
On 4/25/19 8:07 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>> Yes, that would be most likely the sparc64.elf image that grub-mkimage produces. But
>> I don't know yet how to encode the boot path for that into the bootable image.
>
> I'm struggling to see from the man pages the relationship between sparc64.elf and
> cdboot.img. Presumably grub-mkimage generates sparc64.elf which is a self-contained
> grub executable, whilst cdboot.img is the compiled version of boot.S?
Yes, sparc64.elf is the boot image created by grub-mkimage and whose bootpath needs
to be passed to the initial boot loader.
I'm looking now at Oracle's Linux images for SPARC to figure out how they boot:
> http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/packages/linux-oracle-sparc/6.9UEK4/OL-201707062043-R6-U9-sparc-dvd.iso
Adrian
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