12-26-2010
Does grub support ufs
hey,
I've done a lot of searching on the internet and I can't seem to find anything that answers this question. All I'm finding are old post from 2005 where it didn't have support for it. So does grub currently have support for booting from a disk with the Unix file system?
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all, I have FreeBSD and Debian in my HD, the FreeBSD partition is very small and I'd like to change. I try to use partition magic but it does not work with UFS parition. Anyone know a good partition software? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: SeVEn
1 Replies
2. Filesystems, Disks and Memory
Hi,
Can anyone tell me the benifits of having UFS filesystem
Regards,
Raja (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: RajaRC
5 Replies
3. Solaris
Hi,
Can anyone help me.
I would like to know the ufs version on solaris 7 & 8. Also i would like to know is there any command to verify it.
Regards,
Raja (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: RajaRC
1 Replies
4. Solaris
I have a couple of servers where something weird is going on. When I run the command "mount | grep logging" I get something similair to this
/ on /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0
read/write/setuid/devices/intr/largefiles/logging/xattr/onerror=panic/dev=220000
But when I look at /etc/vfstab I dont... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: csaunders
6 Replies
5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi, I installed solaris 10 a few weeks ago. It was working fine during the past two weeks. However, now when I start to load to the drive, I get this problem:
The BIOS screen comes up like normal, then screen goes blank and a message "Grub loading stage 2" flashes real quick then the computer... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: moesays
1 Replies
6. AIX
Hi i have 2 know the full details of unix file systems. some one please help me (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: sathish2win
1 Replies
7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello, I hope somebody can help me. I have a new scanner, that says this:
"EPSON Scan does not support the UNIX File System (UFS) for Mac OS X. You must install EPSON Scan on a disk or in a partition that does not use UFS."
I have UFS.. is there anything I can do? How do I create/find such a... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: Hannako
0 Replies
8. Solaris
Hi All,
I am installing Solaris Kernel Update Patch 2.1
When I am installing , An error message is saying that
Non Global Zones is not mounted in ufs.
I have two non global zones.
When i see in the vfstab , the filesystem in vxfs.
I dont know whether it will give any impact... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: jegaraman
2 Replies
9. Red Hat
Hi,
Can we specify which grub.conf to use while installing grub on RHEL.
We are working on application which requires different grub configurations needed, depending on certain criteria we need to update grub with correct grub.conf.
Can we use grub-install for this purpose? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: successlin
4 Replies
10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
can someone please explain me the difference between these two files:
"/boot/grub/grub.conf" and "/etc/grub.conf" .. (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: stunn3r
7 Replies
LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
grub
grub(5) Standards, Environments, and Macros grub(5)
NAME
grub - GRand Unified Bootloader software on Solaris
DESCRIPTION
The current release of the Solaris operating system is shipped with the GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) software. GRUB is developed and
supported by the Free Software Foundation.
The overview for the GRUB Manual, accessible at www.gnu.org, describes GRUB:
Briefly, a boot loader is the first software program that runs when a computer starts. It is responsible for loading and transferring con-
trol to an operating system kernel software (such as Linux or GNU Mach). The kernel, in turn, initializes the rest of the operating system
(for example, a GNU [Ed. note: or Solaris] system).
GNU GRUB is a very powerful boot loader that can load a wide variety of free, as well as proprietary, operating systems, by means of chain-
loading. GRUB is designed to address the complexity of booting a personal computer; both the program and this manual are tightly bound to
that computer platform, although porting to other platforms may be addressed in the future. [Ed. note: Sun has ported GRUB to the Solaris
operating system.]
One of the important features in GRUB is flexibility; GRUB understands filesystems and kernel executable formats, so you can load an arbi-
trary operating system the way you like, without recording the physical position of your kernel on the disk. Thus you can load the kernel
just by specifying its file name and the drive and partition where the kernel resides.
Among Solaris machines, GRUB is supported on x86 platforms. The GRUB software that is shipped with Solaris adds two utilities not present
in the open-source distribution:
bootadm(1M) Enables you to manage the boot archive and make changes to the GRUB menu.
installgrub(1M) Loads the boot program from disk.
Both of these utilities are described in Solaris man pages.
Beyond these two Solaris-specific utilities, the GRUB software is described in the GRUB manual, a PDF version of which is available from
the Sun web site. Available in the same location is the grub(8) open-source man page. This man page describes the GRUB shell.
SEE ALSO
boot(1M), bootadm(1M), installgrub(1M)
Solaris Express Installation Guide: Basic Installations
System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub
SunOS 5.11 21 Apr 2005 grub(5)