On Tuesday 24 October 2006 22:03, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > Actually I'm not using the heap, I'm just directly copying wherever > phdr->p_paddr says to. That's not a good thing actually; in the future > we should add some error checking to make sure we don't clobber GRUB > itself.
OK, then it's even worse. :( You must not assume that GRUB can always load an OS image to an appropriate location directly. I know this is the case for the current implementation of the Multiboot loader, but it is a very bad idea, generally speaking. What GRUB should do is first to load an image to somewhere then relocate it to the right place at boot time. On i386-pc, the OS area is used for this very purpose. The x86 Multiboot loader is just a mistake, and that's why we must rewrite it. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
