From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1EbPcI-0001ex-IB for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:42:26 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EbPcF-0001cg-Tw for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:42:24 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EbPcE-0001bM-Jh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:42:23 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EbPcE-0001b1-9G for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:42:22 -0500 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EbPcE-00007f-3Q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:42:22 -0500 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C3D08871 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:42:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 07398-07 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:42:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D158663 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:42:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A14F7C047 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:42:19 +0100 (CET) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <87ek5kgt26.fsf@student.han.nl> <2565.1131917899@www36.gmx.net> From: Marco Gerards Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:42:20 +0100 In-Reply-To: <2565.1131917899@www36.gmx.net> (Alita Friedrichsen's message of "Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:38:19 +0100 (MET)") Message-ID: <87r79kfcn7.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: Multiboot-compliant x84-64 Kernel? 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, 13 Nov 2005 21:42:24 -0000 "Alita Friedrichsen" writes: > Hi Marco! > >> There are plans for a new multiboot. > > Oh, that sounds good. Protect the Multiboot information structure from > overwriting ist a realy hard job. > >> This is all for GRUB 2. For GRUB Legacy this just won't happen, I >> think. > > But how log does it take before I can use it? GRUB Legacy comes with every > new Linux distribution. Thats is realy cool, so that the current Multiboot > Specification is a Standard that works. I don't want to break with that > Standard. Are there any Multiboot-compliant x86-64 Kernels out there? If > yes, how do do they that? You could have a look at the archives of the list. IIRC there was a patch for 64 bits ELFs that was applied to GRUB 2. That is for the current multiboot. Perhaps that's enough for you. -- Marco