[oi-dev] [PATCH] Support OpenIndiana in GRUB2

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

Resending because of wrong oi-dev address at first try which caused it
to be rejected from other 2 lists as well
On 08.11.2011 02:19, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> With this patch on top of trunk I was able to compile (using GCC+GAS+GNU
> LD), install, generate config and boot OpenIndiana. Some areas are grey
> to me. As like:
> 1) Is it better to determine zfs-bootfs parameter on boot or on config.
> GRUB-Legacy does former but it has the problem that rpool may be
> inaccessible to GRUB (it may be that only /boot/grub is accessible to it)
> 2) What's the best way to handle "local" keyword?
> 3) Does Illumos support* multiple kernels?
> 4) Does Illumos support* snapshot or subvolume booting
>
> *=support=kernel is capable of handling it, we can do whatever we want
> on bootloader level.
>


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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