[syslinux] Using memdisk with grub2 and a gzip-compressed ISO
Andrei Borzenkov
arvidjaar at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 20:14:43 PDT 2015
В Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:17:02 -0700
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> пишет:
> On 04/23/2015 07:23 AM, David Shaw via Syslinux wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure if this is related to the problem, but note the length
> > in the "Ramdisk" line from grub legacy is one byte shorter than the
> > length from grub2. Also note that the length given in the "gzip
> > image" line is shifted one byte to the left in the grub legacy
> > version (i.e. it's exactly 0x100 times larger).
> >
>
> That would definitely break using a compressed ramdisk.
It does not break for kernel. What makes is so different in case of
syslinux?
> And yes, this
> is why the length is wrong.
>
> This would be a Grub2 bug.
>
> -hpa
>
>
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