[illumos-Developer] Guidance for updating illumos to boot with GRUB 2

[Albert Lee]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at nexenta.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 15:05 +0530, Harshit Jain wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>
> Hi Harshit!
>
>>
>> I am Harshit Jain, a final year student of CSE from Institute of
>> Technology, Banaras Hindu University (IT-BHU), Varanasi, India. I want
>> to apply in GSOC'11 for project idea to update illumos to boot with
>> GRUB 2. Kindly guide me about how to proceed for this idea. Any
>> reference to documentation related to update grub will be helpful. Do
>> I need to submit any qualification task before applying for GSoC?
>
> I think this task is fairly straight-forward, but it will be helpful if
> you examine both the existing grub 0.97 code in our tree (under
> usr/src/grub), *and* the newer grub 2 code.  Also, part of this task
> will require fixing bootadm and possibly touching beadm so that those
> commands update grub 2 configuration.
>
> Note that we require ZFS boot functionality, so this is going to be a
> major part of the task.

There is a prototype ZFS module for GRUB 2 here, which might be useful
as a reference or starting point:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-04/msg00512.html

-Albert