From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MfC4D-00007G-An for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:21:01 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfC4B-00005O-DC for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:20:59 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfC46-0008Qb-F4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:20:58 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58158 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfC46-0008QD-8e for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:20:54 -0400 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:34577 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MfBt3-00007O-E5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:09:29 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MfBt0-0008Gn-Ae; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:09:26 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MfBsz-0005jx-Oo; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:09:25 +0200 Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:09:25 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090823120925.GR4130@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/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Cc: Bean Subject: Re: My implementation of the grub2 boot rom 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: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:20:59 -0000 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 > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel -- 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."