From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1ICbCb-0007hS-WF for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:10:26 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ICbCa-0007gs-5y for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:10:24 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ICbCX-0007fs-8Z for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:10:23 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ICbCX-0007fn-3t for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:10:21 -0400 Received: from smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.36]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ICbCW-0003Kb-L6 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:10:20 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (249-174.surfsnel.dsl.internl.net [145.99.174.249]) by smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6MDAJlZ029725 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:10:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) From: Marco Gerards To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <467527E0.1020008@gmail.com> Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:11:53 +0200 In-Reply-To: <467527E0.1020008@gmail.com> (Mikhail Vorozhtsov's message of "Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:24:00 +0700") Message-ID: <87lkd8fuqu.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 Subject: Re: Self multiboot patch 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: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:10:24 -0000 Mikhail Vorozhtsov writes: Hi, > Here is a patch for booting GRUB via itself with multiboot > module. Tested on [http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnX86]-alike floppy > image and QEMU. Great! > BTW. When I'm trying to add some code/data before/in multiboot_entry > in startup.S, GRUB hangs with "Loading kernel" message (even if it > booted not via multiboot). How can I avoid it? It would be nice to > print some message about invalid magic value, for example. But I just > cannot add the code. Hopefully someone else knows... The good looks good to me. Hopefully Jeroen or Okuji can give some feedback on this. Can you provide a changelog entry so when all is ok, the patch can be applied? -- Marco