* Booting vmlinux with GRUB on x86
@ 2006-05-06 5:02 C K Kashyap
2006-05-06 13:48 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-07 9:28 ` Andi Kleen
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: C K Kashyap @ 2006-05-06 5:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Looks like kernel 2.6 generates a kernel that can be loaded by GRUB by
just adding the multiboot signature...However, it does'nt quite work!
... Has anyone tried it? Just want to do away with the overhead of
bzImage etc!!
--
Regards,
Kashyap
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* Re: Booting vmlinux with GRUB on x86
2006-05-06 5:02 Booting vmlinux with GRUB on x86 C K Kashyap
@ 2006-05-06 13:48 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-09 5:52 ` C K Kashyap
2006-05-07 9:28 ` Andi Kleen
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Alistair John Strachan @ 2006-05-06 13:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: C K Kashyap; +Cc: linux-kernel
On Saturday 06 May 2006 06:02, C K Kashyap wrote:
> Looks like kernel 2.6 generates a kernel that can be loaded by GRUB by
> just adding the multiboot signature...However, it does'nt quite work!
> ... Has anyone tried it? Just want to do away with the overhead of
> bzImage etc!!
You might be interested in Gujin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujin
--
Cheers,
Alistair.
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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* Re: Booting vmlinux with GRUB on x86
2006-05-06 13:48 ` Alistair John Strachan
@ 2006-05-09 5:52 ` C K Kashyap
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: C K Kashyap @ 2006-05-09 5:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alistair John Strachan; +Cc: linux-kernel
Thanks Alistair,
Looks like a useful place.
regards,
Kashyap
On 5/6/06, Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Saturday 06 May 2006 06:02, C K Kashyap wrote:
> > Looks like kernel 2.6 generates a kernel that can be loaded by GRUB by
> > just adding the multiboot signature...However, it does'nt quite work!
> > ... Has anyone tried it? Just want to do away with the overhead of
> > bzImage etc!!
>
> You might be interested in Gujin.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujin
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Alistair.
>
> Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
> 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
>
--
Regards,
Kashyap
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* Re: Booting vmlinux with GRUB on x86
2006-05-06 5:02 Booting vmlinux with GRUB on x86 C K Kashyap
2006-05-06 13:48 ` Alistair John Strachan
@ 2006-05-07 9:28 ` Andi Kleen
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Andi Kleen @ 2006-05-07 9:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: C K Kashyap; +Cc: linux-kernel
"C K Kashyap" <ckkashyap@gmail.com> writes:
> Looks like kernel 2.6 generates a kernel that can be loaded by GRUB by
> just adding the multiboot signature...However, it does'nt quite work!
> ... Has anyone tried it? Just want to do away with the overhead of
> bzImage etc!!
bzImage has some real mode code that gets information from the BIOS
and passes it to the vmlinux (see Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt)
grub would need to pass this information first before it could execute
vmlinux directly.
There are also some more complications on x86-64: vmlinux currently
assumes it starts in 32bit protected mode, not 64bit.
-Andi
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