Ping?
I think it would be great to have multiboot support in grub.
As a matter of fact without it grub cannot load xen on arm.
On Wed, 21 Jan 2015, Fu Wei wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> any suggestion for my patchset?
> if these patches look fine, can they be merged?
>
> Any feedback is welcome! :-)
> Great thanks !
>
> On 9 January 2015 at 00:38, Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-12-19 at 01:55 +0800, Fu Wei wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Fu Wei <fu....@linaro.org>
> > Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindh...@linaro.org>
>
> I've tested the code at
>
> git://git.linaro.org/people/fu.wei/grub.git#multiboot_xen_support_upstream_v4.0
> which I believe is the same as this posting on an AMD Seattle system
> with a 40_custom containing:
>
> menuentry 'Baremetal' {
> insmod gzio
> insmod part_msdos
> insmod ext2
> set root='hd0,msdos2'
> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
> d4178d5c-96a8-46ee-a304-0d87baa545cd
> linux /boot/vmlinuz console=ttyAMA0,115200n8
> earlycon=pl011,0xe1010000 root=/dev/sda2 rootwait
> }
> menuentry 'Xen' {
> insmod gzio
> insmod part_msdos
> insmod ext2
> set root='hd0,msdos2'
> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
> d4178d5c-96a8-46ee-a304-0d87baa545cd
> multiboot /boot/xen no-bootscrub console=dtuart
> conswitch=x dtuart=/smb/serial@e1010000 noreboot
> sync_console dom0_mem=256M dom0_max_vcpus=1
> module /boot/vmlinuz-xen console=hvc0
> earlycon=pl011,0xe1010000 root=/dev/sda2 rootwait
> }
>
> (my system is too confused for 10_linux or 20_linux_xen right now, but I
> believe this is representative of what they would emit)
>
> The result was that I could boot both Baremetal and Xen via grub. So:
>
> Tested-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com>
>
> I've not looked at the code (although I did review several older
> iterations), would it be useful to the grub maintainers for me to do so?
>
> Ian.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Fu Wei
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