[syslinux] Memdisk and Grub

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Dec 10 12:58:07 PST 2002


Christian Kalkhoff wrote:
> Hello Peter, hi list,
> 
> Am Die, 2002-12-10 um 02.25 schrieb H. Peter Anvin:
> 
>>Given GRUBs history of, quite frankly, unbelievably broken memory
>>management, I wouldn't be one bit surprised to find this.
> 
> I fully agree with you. I was now able to shrink the initrd from redhat
> boot disks. I deleted some kernel modules never used on CoLocation
> servers and now everything fints onto 1.44 which can be booted with
> diskemu.
> 
> Now the question is, is it a bug or a feature. I guess my C/Assembler
> knowledge is too small for figuring out things like memory management.
> But I am going to add some kind of condition support to menu.lst/grub to
> check wether there are bootable disks etc. So in future i can boot grub
> from an el torito disk image on cdrom.
> 

Why bother with diskemu/memdisk anyway... why not just do a native
ISOLINUX boot?

	-hpa





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