[syslinux] Need help trying out new mboot.c32

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Apr 29 09:42:05 PDT 2009


Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes:
> 
>> Grub's definition of "the command line" includes the kernel/module
>> filenames.  This isn't explicit in the spec, but it looks like
>> tboot, and newer versions of Xen, skip to the first whitespace
>> before parsing the command line.
> 
> Does it mean that older versions of Xen (have you got an idea which
> ones?) won't work with the new mboot code?  I could test with Xen 3.2,
> if that's interesting for you.

No, it doesn't -- they worked with Grub, after all.

However, I was testing with Xen 3.0.3, and it didn't show there was a
problem.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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