From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1N3xUi-0002M7-3F for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:50:44 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3xUf-0002KN-LP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:50:41 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3xUa-0002Fw-3f for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:50:40 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40138 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3xUZ-0002Fd-Ut for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:50:36 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f211.google.com ([209.85.219.211]:36975) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3xUZ-0003x8-Hx for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:50:35 -0400 Received: by ewy7 with SMTP id 7so1320415ewy.31 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:50:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=lGE4mq2gTjU1khxJRHjijz2xyqkGJZUs9EW7N9JcnKE=; b=Z28kyIuki+CoXCXDjaO+9/Vr260U7qbwlh/ALGNPs0Y+ude5FGqgjtIvX0uSGzo5y2 jHDbgdzB8e5NAorQV8WgsxFnC+8i/ZqVez3xcsa5wwilGobl7PKGOidjlzkaZVfmnomU ICvZH6NcTIZt5R+8kgB5fVatlQ04cEIby30iE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=R/PytkGfA99nE3y+wtsU7UfOMvS9Y4dST4/ThD1aFw7eSEoF/As8bm2LV6MfV+gitt Ij+8ZI8qWUp8dq4kwNbo5pIH5pxV9ZDcN35E5Vx3Ux1ooel9AnbOimMfUWUrO6tBXcwu Ds1KDOX6LD3dtjYpkZPExD34oneCR5D099wRw= Received: by 10.210.3.21 with SMTP id 21mr1010092ebc.40.1256932234403; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:50:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.bg45.phnet (65.Red-88-21-98.staticIP.rima-tde.net [88.21.98.65]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm9486186eyh.10.2009.10.30.12.50.33 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:50:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AEB4383.4070604@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:50:27 +0100 From: Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090701) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <20091029202000.61a00e31@shiva.selfip.org> <20091030184128.GA11320@thorin> In-Reply-To: <20091030184128.GA11320@thorin> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: success booting hdt.c32 module with memdisk 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: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:50:42 -0000 Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 08:20:00PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > >> Though it would be nice to see grub's power to directly load syslinux module like this one :-) >> > > If this module is free software, we can adjust it to support a true boot > standard like Multiboot. Then HDT would be useful in other setups (e.g. > GRUB Legacy or coreboot). > > I think a patch that adds Multiboot support to HDT would be more useful > than another standalone loader. > > (but failing that, we could have yet another loader, of course) > > This isn't like a normal payload as far as I understand but more like grub modules -- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git