On Saturday 19 April 2008 13:45, Patrick Georgi wrote: > Yet, GRUB2 differs in behaviour from GRUB legacy: > > GRUB first looks if the file is multiboot and an ELF image. If not, it > looks for the aout flag, and handles the file accordingly. So in case of > the OpenSolaris kernel, it never looks at the flag.
I think you refer to an older version of GRUB Legacy here. This behavior has been fixed. > GRUB2 first looks if the flag is set and assumes the file is aout (and > fails), and only if not, tries ELF. This is correct, and consistent with the latest GRUB Legacy. > I'm not sure if that change in behaviour is intended, which is why I ask > here. If the new behaviour is to stay, making the aout parser more > robust, and fail with a more meaningful error, might be a good idea. Yes, I agree. There must be a bug. :) Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
