On Tuesday 04 November 2008 21:36:27 Robert Millan wrote: > The Multiboot2 draft says a Multiboot2 header must be included in the OS > image. However, our code assumes (in code itself and in comments) that for > MB2 this is optional. > > As a consequence, if you feed GRUB's multiboot loader any ELF, it will > attempt to load it. I think this is very confusing for those developing > a Multiboot _1_ OS. If they happen to make a mistake and put the MB1 > header too high or unaligned, GRUB won't tell them about it but instead > fail in a very confusing way. > > So I assume (I'd like to!) that the correct one is the draft, and it's the > code that should be changed to reject executables that don't have either > MB1 or MB2 headers?
Yes. The code is wrong. Regards, Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
