From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Issue with OpenSolaris kernels on GRUB2
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:46:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804251546.34571.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fucm0n$dct$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Saturday 19 April 2008 13:45, Patrick Georgi wrote:
> Yet, GRUB2 differs in behaviour from GRUB legacy:
>
> GRUB first looks if the file is multiboot and an ELF image. If not, it
> looks for the aout flag, and handles the file accordingly. So in case of
> the OpenSolaris kernel, it never looks at the flag.
I think you refer to an older version of GRUB Legacy here. This behavior has
been fixed.
> GRUB2 first looks if the flag is set and assumes the file is aout (and
> fails), and only if not, tries ELF.
This is correct, and consistent with the latest GRUB Legacy.
> I'm not sure if that change in behaviour is intended, which is why I ask
> here. If the new behaviour is to stay, making the aout parser more
> robust, and fail with a more meaningful error, might be a good idea.
Yes, I agree. There must be a bug. :)
Okuji
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2008-04-19 11:45 Issue with OpenSolaris kernels on GRUB2 Patrick Georgi
2008-04-25 13:46 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
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