From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>,
grub-devel@gnu.org, syslinux@zytor.com
Cc: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [syslinux] Using memdisk with grub2 and a gzip-compressed ISO
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:17:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55396F5E.7090303@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C7ACECCE-ACED-44D0-BD29-22D9D8FB9941@jabberwocky.com>
On 04/23/2015 07:23 AM, David Shaw via Syslinux wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if this is related to the problem, but note the length
> in the "Ramdisk" line from grub legacy is one byte shorter than the
> length from grub2. Also note that the length given in the "gzip
> image" line is shifted one byte to the left in the grub legacy
> version (i.e. it's exactly 0x100 times larger).
>
That would definitely break using a compressed ramdisk. And yes, this
is why the length is wrong.
This would be a Grub2 bug.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-23 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-23 14:23 Using memdisk with grub2 and a gzip-compressed ISO David Shaw
2015-04-23 16:59 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-04-23 22:17 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2015-04-24 3:14 ` [syslinux] " Andrei Borzenkov
2015-04-24 3:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-04-24 3:41 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-04-24 4:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-04-24 6:25 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-04-27 22:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-04-29 13:55 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2015-04-29 16:28 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-04-29 17:45 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-04-29 18:35 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2015-04-30 3:36 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-04-29 18:42 ` David Shaw
2015-05-07 14:23 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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