[syslinux] How to determine your bootloader from the kernel

Ram Yalamanchili ramyinc at gmail.com
Fri Dec 1 00:27:09 PST 2006


Could I tell from inside mboot.c? I can live with modifying my mboot to
append a special cmdline arg to do this.

thanks,
Ram

On 11/30/06, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
>
> Ram Yalamanchili wrote:
> > If you have a multiboot kernel which is booted by
> > syslinux/pxelinux/isolinux, etc., is there a way to determine who
> actually
> > is the bootloader among the three?
> >
> > I'm wondering if the multiboot header or any part of memory has a
> consistent
> > identifier somewhere.
> >
>
> I don't think Multiboot has this.
>
>         -hpa
>
>



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