Re: How to create boot CDROM with GRUB2

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Jun 22, 2005, at 8:55 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:

> I went through the steps with configure and make and install into a
> prefix of ~/pkgs/local  with the end result being :
>
> address@hidden:~/pkgs/local$ find . -ls
> 195965    4 drwxr-xr-x   5 dclarke  users        4096 Jun 21 18:13 .
> 195966    4 drwxr-xr-x   3 dclarke  users        4096 Jun 21 18:10 
> ./share
> 195967    4 drwxr-xr-x   3 dclarke  users        4096 Jun 21 18:10 
> ./share/grub
> 195968    4 drwxr-xr-x   2 dclarke  users        4096 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275
> 195969    8 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        5892 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/_linux.mod
> 195970    4 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        1868 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/linux.mod
> 195974    8 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        6564 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/fat.mod
> 195975   12 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        8940 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/ufs.mod
> 195976    8 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        6500 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/ext2.mod
> 195977    8 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        6312 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/minix.mod
> 195978    8 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        7628 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/hfs.mod
> 195979    8 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        8116 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/jfs.mod
> 195980   36 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users       36424 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/normal.mod
> 195981    4 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        1316 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/hello.mod
> 195982    4 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        3128 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/font.mod
> 195983    8 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        5540 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/ls.mod
> 195984    4 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        1400 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/boot.mod
> 195985    4 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        2252 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/cmp.mod
> 195986    4 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        2020 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/cat.mod
> 195987    4 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        2300 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/terminal.mod
> 195988    4 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        3124 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/fshelp.mod
> 195989    4 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        2876 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/amiga.mod
> 195990    4 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        2704 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/apple.mod
> 195991    4 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        4024 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/pc.mod
> 195992    4 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        1404 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/suspend.mod
> 195993    8 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        4300 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/loopback.mod
> 195994    4 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        2460 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/help.mod
> 195995    4 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        1276 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/reboot.mod
> 195996    4 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        1320 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/halt.mod
> 195997    4 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        2940 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/sun.mod
> 195998    4 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        1604 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/default.mod
> 195999    4 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        1596 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/timeout.mod
> 196000    4 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users        1512 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/configfile.mod
> 196001    4 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users         325 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/moddep.lst
> 196002    4 -rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  users         334 Jun 21 18:10
> ./share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/command.lst
> 196003    4 drwxr-xr-x   2 dclarke  users        4096 Jun 21 18:10 
> ./bin
> 196004  456 -rwxr-xr-x   1 dclarke  users      462473 Jun 21 18:10
> ./bin/grub-emu
> 196005   76 -rwxr-xr-x   1 dclarke  users       71158 Jun 21 18:10
> ./bin/grub-mkimage
> 214585    4 drwxr-xr-x   2 dclarke  users        4096 Jun 21 18:10 
> ./sbin

Keep in mind that so far we have not been using "make install". That 
said, what is the problem you're pointing out here? That the "grubof" 
executable itself is missing?

(As more people start using this, we really need to rename "grubof" 
before we become stuck with that name forever.)

> address@hidden:~/pkgs/local$ uname -a
> Linux debian 2.6.8-pegasos #1 Wed Aug 18 16:40:30 CEST 2004 ppc 
> GNU/Linux
>
>
> My system is a PowerPC based unit with open firmware.  In fact it is a
> GENESI ODW unit thus : http://www.pegasosppc.com/odw.php
>
> There is no floppy device but I guess I could attach one somehow.
> What I need to do is install the GRUB2 bootloader on this unit but I
> would prefer to have it on a bootable CDROM  first.
>
> Is there any clear way to achieve this ?

Have you seen this page? If not, it should get you started: 
http://www.autistici.org/grub/moin.cgi/TestingOnPowerPC

> Dennis Clarke
> address@hidden

Do you intend for Open Solaris to use multiboot, or the Linux loader, 
or write a custom loader for it?

-Hollis