From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1M0Deq-0007k0-DL for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2009 07:45:28 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M0Den-0007hC-Fy for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2009 07:45:25 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M0Dei-0007bu-HH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2009 07:45:24 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60210 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M0Dei-0007bK-5v for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2009 07:45:20 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:58773) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M0Deh-0000TP-FD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2009 07:45:19 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M0DRQ-0001c0-PK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2009 13:31:37 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M0Ded-0007Q8-Pm for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2009 13:45:15 +0200 Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 13:45:15 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090502114515.GF28362@thorin> References: <49E4C9EE.1030507@gmail.com> 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/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Kexec loading grub2 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: Sat, 02 May 2009 11:45:25 -0000 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."