Re: Kexec loading grub2

2009-05-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 03:04:47PM -0700, Joey Korkames wrote: >> If you use 0x10, though, the Linux loader will probably stop working. > > I'm not too worried about breaking the linux loader since kexec can load > linux directly...as long as it can load some other OS's (multiboot - > kexec c

Re: Kexec loading grub2

2009-05-02 Thread Joey Korkames
Please use Multiboot. It's about time we start standarising on boot protocols... # kexec --type multiboot-x86 --load grub2.elf issues this error: > Base address: 8200 is not page aligned Multiboot doesn't require that load addresses are page aligned, but I think you can change the link ad

Re: Kexec loading grub2

2009-05-02 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 02:28:21PM -0700, Joey Korkames wrote: > 1) Add a 32-bit load segment to boot/i386/pc/lnxboot.S as described by > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/x86/boot.txt > (at the bottom) > > grub4dos (which is kexec'able) impl