From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Kexec loading grub2
Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 13:45:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090502114515.GF28362@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cone.1239744501.891500.3361.1000@toolshiner.phx1.kidfixit.com>
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 02:28:21PM -0700, Joey Korkames wrote:
> 1) Add a 32-bit load segment to boot/i386/pc/lnxboot.S as described by
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/x86/boot.txt (at the bottom)
>
> grub4dos (which is kexec'able) implements this in startup_32: @ http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/grub4dos/trunk/stage2/dosstart.S?view=markup
Please use Multiboot. It's about time we start standarising on boot
protocols...
> # kexec --type multiboot-x86 --load grub2.elf
> issues this error:
> > Base address: 8200 is not page aligned
Multiboot doesn't require that load addresses are page aligned, but I think you
can change the link address without much trouble.
If you use 0x100000, though, the Linux loader will probably stop working.
--
Robert Millan
The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-02 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-14 17:37 Update on xnu.mod phcoder
2009-04-14 17:43 ` phcoder
2009-04-14 21:28 ` Kexec loading grub2 Joey Korkames
2009-05-02 11:45 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2009-05-02 22:04 ` Joey Korkames
2009-05-13 20:49 ` Robert Millan
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