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From: mindentropy@gmail.com (mindentropy)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: How vmlinux is recognized?
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 22:16:19 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201105122216.19306.mindentropy@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTim3dC6EY3d5ZBhCmmtZBiHbKL+Sew@mail.gmail.com>

> This way, GRUB doesn't need to know how to decode ELF
> files and the job is left to the kernel code. 

GRUB has a elf decoder, but it should have multiboot header.
http://osdev.berlios.de/grub.html#multiboot

Hope this answers your doubt.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-12 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-11 18:06 How vmlinux is recognized? Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-11 19:17 ` Dave Hylands
2011-05-11 19:31   ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-11 19:45     ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-05-11 20:04       ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-11 20:09         ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-05-11 20:11           ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-11 20:21             ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-05-12  3:32               ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-12  4:32                 ` Sudheer Divakaran
2011-05-12  6:21                   ` Sudheer Divakaran
2011-05-12  7:26                     ` luca ellero
2011-05-12  8:17                 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-05-13  0:19                   ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-13  1:42                     ` Dave Hylands
2011-05-16  3:14                       ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-16  3:44                       ` Peter Teoh
2011-05-16 14:12                         ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-12  9:31                 ` अनुज
2011-05-11 20:33 ` Manohar Vanga
2011-05-12  3:34   ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-12 16:46   ` mindentropy [this message]

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