From: mindentropy@gmail.com (mindentropy)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: How vmlinux is recognized?
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 22:16:19 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201105122216.19306.mindentropy@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTim3dC6EY3d5ZBhCmmtZBiHbKL+Sew@mail.gmail.com>
> This way, GRUB doesn't need to know how to decode ELF
> files and the job is left to the kernel code.
GRUB has a elf decoder, but it should have multiboot header.
http://osdev.berlios.de/grub.html#multiboot
Hope this answers your doubt.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-12 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-11 18:06 How vmlinux is recognized? Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-11 19:17 ` Dave Hylands
2011-05-11 19:31 ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-11 19:45 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-05-11 20:04 ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-11 20:09 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-05-11 20:11 ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-11 20:21 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-05-12 3:32 ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-12 4:32 ` Sudheer Divakaran
2011-05-12 6:21 ` Sudheer Divakaran
2011-05-12 7:26 ` luca ellero
2011-05-12 8:17 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-05-13 0:19 ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-13 1:42 ` Dave Hylands
2011-05-16 3:14 ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-16 3:44 ` Peter Teoh
2011-05-16 14:12 ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-12 9:31 ` अनुज
2011-05-11 20:33 ` Manohar Vanga
2011-05-12 3:34 ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-12 16:46 ` mindentropy [this message]
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