[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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