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From: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 11:25:33
Message-Id: 5227189a.93UkuUYWyxaRjDJJ%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
In Reply to: Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo by Walter Dnes
1 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
2
3 > > Grub works this way:
4 > >
5 > > 1) It loads /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix
6 >
7 > Question... how does it read that file off a ZFS partition? OK, so
8 > ZFS code has to be installed statically into GRUB instead of statically
9 > into the kernel. Please stop the shell game.
10
11 Grub was enhanced by Sun to understand ZFS. You need such an enhanced grub if
12 you like to boot off ZFS.
13
14 > Note also that this is a Gentoo *LINUX* mailing list. We're more
15 > concerned about how Linux works.
16
17 Linux does not contain code to boot AFAIK....
18
19 Jörg
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Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re:[gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebrecht@×××××.fr>