Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add multi-boot kernel loading support

[Rene Rebe <rene@exactcode.de>]

Hi,

Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Rene Rebe schrieb:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Alexander Graf implemented multi-boot kernel loading during
>> his work to run Darwin inside Qemu/KVM. As the boot loader
>> expects to load the kernel in an EFI environment a custom
>> booter is used to load the kernel using a legacy BIOS.
>>
>> This is a port of the patch to the new extload / INT 19
>> machinery (including minor cleanups).
> 
> The memory map doesn't seem to work. It's all zeros for me (haven't
> looked for the reason yet) and that kills my kernel. When I disable the
> memory map part, the kernel seems to boot correctly and it sees all the
> modules with the right command lines.
> 
> Once these basic things work, another nice feature would be gzip
> support. It took me some minutes until I realized that I tried to feed
> it a gzipped kernel which didn't work, of course.

I think I noticed the same with the GRUB example kernel. I'll
take a look at some later hour.

Is your kernel something you can share for testing?


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