From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NXMnB-0005Sk-KA for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:43:21 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NXMn9-0005Rz-Sp for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:43:19 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NXMn5-0005Pk-5Z for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:43:19 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58958 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NXMn5-0005Pf-0M for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:43:15 -0500 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:47671 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 1NXMn4-0005Bb-MU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:43:14 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NXMmy-0000CQ-6D for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:43:08 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NXMmv-0002IL-RS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:43:05 +0100 Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:43:05 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GNU GRUB Message-ID: <20100119224305.GF8599@thorin> References: <4B4F2EE2.6090405@gmail.com> <4B4F332A.6020504@gmail.com> <4B4F6A01.6090605@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4B4F6A01.6090605@gmail.com> 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) Subject: Re: [multiboot] abstractmbi, modules X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:43:20 -0000 On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 08:01:21PM +0100, Grégoire Sutre wrote: > Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > >> It's known problem: xen makes inappropriate assumptions about mbi placement > > I'm wondering why it works with the NetBSD boot-loader. What are these > assumptions? Loader in GRUB 2 tends to put MBI and associated structures right after payload code (unlike GRUB Legacy which uses a fixed location below 1 MiB). -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi