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From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [ppc patch] Old World Mac booting
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:26:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410071126.37521.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200410061358.34437.hollis@penguinppc.org>

On Wednesday 06 October 2004 15:58, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> I can't look right now, but does x86 GRUB need to use a block list
> for an early stage? If so, could someone point me to the structures
> used? I'd like to use that as my model...

You can see the details from the comments at the bottom of 
boot/i386/pc/diskboot.S. It is the almost same as the so-called 
"blocklist" format. It specifies a list of blocks, and each block 
consists of a start sector and the number of contiguous sectors. One 
sector is 512-byte.

Okuji



      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-07  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-03 18:59 [ppc patch] Old World Mac booting Hollis Blanchard
2004-10-06 18:27 ` Marco Gerards
2004-10-06 13:58   ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-10-06 21:03     ` Marco Gerards
2004-10-07  9:26     ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]

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