Pavel Roskin wrote:
On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 13:53 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
Here's a patch to rename `linux' to `linux16' and build the 32-bit loader as
simply `linux'.
Committed.
Just for your information. With the old loader, booting an x86_64
kernel in qemu emulating i386 would result in a kernel message:
"This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU but only detected an i686 CPU
Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU"
With the new loader, the kernel hands without showing any messages. It
can be a kernel bug. Linux 2.6.29, current GRUB.
I confirm. I suppose that this check and message is bypassed with 32-bit
loading mode. IMO grub2 should provide an equivlent of this check. We
already have cpuid code. Does anyone know how to determine if kernel is
i386 or amd64?
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Regards
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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