On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 10:26:54AM +0000, Brano Zarnovican wrote: > On 11/17/06, Andrei E. Warkentin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >How about having a custom e_type for ELF images booted by GRUB? Something > >in > > Guys at Xen solved it nicely with custom ELF section. Somewhere in > your OS code you create a section with specific name, bootloader will > be looking for. For multiboot it might look like: > > .section __multiboot_v2 > .long MAGIC_THIS > .long FLAGS_THAT > > Header position is exactly defined in ELF which Grub already speaks. > It does not need to be in first 8kB. The downside is that it will make > multiboot ELF-only. > > Oh. Did I mention that you can have more than one header in a single image ? > (for non-compatible multiboot versions ;) But using notes make it almost impossible to use a compressed image. (This is almost a requirement for ia64, but I also think ia64 does not require these flags).
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