[syslinux] [PATCH] chain.c32: add support for loading GRUB stage2

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/08/2010 03:27 PM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> 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?
> 

There has been an IRC discussion about how to chainboot Grub2... that
might be it.

	-hpa