From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1J0FMG-0000qQ-5f for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:57:36 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0FME-0000pI-FK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:57:34 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0FMD-0000oy-OW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:57:34 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0FMD-0000ov-ME for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:57:33 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J0FMC-0004pM-Vb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:57:33 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J0FMB-0007ta-Ir for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:57:32 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J0FLS-0003f6-Cv for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:56:46 +0100 Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 12:56:46 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20071206115646.GB13758@thorin> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Convert grub2 kernel core.img to linux kernel format X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:57:34 -0000 On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 10:16:38PM +0800, Bean wrote: > Hi, > > I've just written a header file that can be used to convert core.img > to linux kernel format: > > cat lnxhdr.bin core.img > grub2.bin > > You can then load grub2.bin from syslinux/isolinux/pxelinux/lilo or > any other boot loader that supports linux kernel. > > qemu support linux kernel as well. Now you can start grub2 like this: > > qemu -kernel grub2.bin -hda aa.dsk > > To compile lnxhdr.bin, use the following commands: > > gcc -nostdlib -Wl,-N -o lnxhdr lnxhdr.S > objcopy -O binary lnxhdr lnxhdr.bin Very nice! Can you resend as a patch that puts it in the tree ? (+ ChangeLog) -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)