Re: grub2 multiboot for ppc and system initalization

2005-12-31 Thread Marco Gerards
Noah yan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Right. Have you considered just waiting for multiboot 2 instead of >> using a standard that is not a standard? I assume multiboot 2 will be >> there in some months or so... > > currently, it is enough that grub2 can load a kernel and jump to it (whether >

Re: grub2 multiboot for ppc and system initalization

2005-12-31 Thread Noah yan
On 12/31/05, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Noah yan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:>> Cool, but I wonder if it can be applied.  Mainly because it is most >> likely not multiboot compliant because multiboot is x86 only, or am I>> misunderstanding something?>> Yes, you are right, multiboot fo

Re: grub2 multiboot for ppc and system initalization

2005-12-31 Thread Marco Gerards
Noah yan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Cool, but I wonder if it can be applied. Mainly because it is most >> likely not multiboot compliant because multiboot is x86 only, or am I >> misunderstanding something? > > Yes, you are right, multiboot for ppc is not exactly correct concerning > about th

Re: grub2 multiboot for ppc and system initalization

2005-12-30 Thread Noah yan
Hi, Macro,   Sorry for some confusion, some clearification below.   On 12/30/05, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Noah yan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:Hi Noah, > I am glad that I have finally made the grub2 multiboot for ppc working. It> is based on Hollis' earlier work (> http://lists.gnu.

Re: grub2 multiboot for ppc and system initalization

2005-12-30 Thread Marco Gerards
Cyril Plisko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > As in x86 and sparc, the multiboot strap is basically not the real kernel, >> > but a loader to load ramdisk and initializer of system before exitto unix >> > module. Here comes several choices about the system initialization: >> >> Can you explain

Re: grub2 multiboot for ppc and system initalization

2005-12-30 Thread Cyril Plisko
> > > As in x86 and sparc, the multiboot strap is basically not the real kernel, > > but a loader to load ramdisk and initializer of system before exitto unix > > module. Here comes several choices about the system initialization: > > Can you explain that? Usually the kernel loaded by multiboot *i

Re: grub2 multiboot for ppc and system initalization

2005-12-30 Thread Marco Gerards
Noah yan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Noah, > I am glad that I have finally made the grub2 multiboot for ppc working. It > is based on Hollis' earlier work ( > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2005-06/msg00049.html) . > Hollis' hello world example works for my building environment a

grub2 multiboot for ppc and system initalization

2005-12-30 Thread Noah yan
Hi, All I am glad that I have finally made the grub2 multiboot for ppc working. It is based on Hollis' earlier work (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2005-06/msg00049.html) . Hollis' hello world example works for my building environment and system, which is Mandrake Linux (2.6.11) on P