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From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Bean <bean123ch@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: My implementation of the grub2 boot rom
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:09:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090823120925.GR4130@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca0f59980712021219u195c437aj4eb33a09ef32005e@mail.gmail.com>


Hi Bean,

It appears this has been overlooked for quite a while.  If you could resync
and re-send it as a patch, I'll be glad to review and see about getting it
merged.

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 04:19:12AM +0800, Bean wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've written my own code for grub2 boot rom, the steps are:
> 
> 1, Use make to compile romboot.S and grub-mkrom.c, it will generate
> romboot.img and grub-mkrom.
> 2, Create kernel image core.img with grub-mkimage
> 3, Create rom image with grub-mkrom, like this:
> 
> grub-mkrom romboot.img core.img output_file
> 
> grub-mkrom support the following options:
> 
>  -m message         Boot message
>  -t timeout            Timeout in seconds
>  -k key                Hotkey
>  -x edx                Value of EDX
> 
> default hotkey is SPACE, default timeout is 2 seconds.
> 
> The new code is much smaller than the romos version (only 240 bytes),
> and it runs grub2 after POST, so that int 13 can be used to access the
> disk.
> 
> -- 
> Bean


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-- 
Robert Millan

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      reply	other threads:[~2009-08-23 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-02 20:19 My implementation of the grub2 boot rom Bean
2009-08-23 12:09 ` Robert Millan [this message]

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