[syslinux] [PATCH] chain.c32: add support for loading GRUB stage2
Paul Bolle
pebolle at tiscali.nl
Tue Jun 8 15:27:16 PDT 2010
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 15:13 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 06/08/2010 02:15 PM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > GRUB's stage2 doesn't have a command line itself, does it? That implies
> > APPEND is not the most obvious way to supply GRUB's stage2 with
> > additional parameters.
>
> No, the right way is to pass in the disk coordinates via the Multiboot
> field. It requires partition-scanning code in mboot.c32 which I so far
> have avoided putting in, but I guess it's time.
GRUB's stage2 is not a multiboot "kernel". (It can load multiboot
kernel, of course.)
On the other hand GRUB2 images are multiboot "kernels". But my patch
concerns the (now "legacy") GRUB (version 0.9?).
Am I missing something?
Paul
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