This is a fact. The (standard) Linux kernel is not a mulitboot
specified kernel. But GRUB cannot ONLY load kernels following
the multiboot spec. GRUB also knows ELF binaries, Linux kernels
(as they are), etc...
Christoph P.
Gregg C Levine wrote:
Hello from Gregg C Levine normally
Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
grub-0.5.96.1 doesn't support EZ-BIOS but when you install grub into
a partition and do it from Grub floppy with EZ-BIOS loaded first, as
you do, I don't see a problem.
On a suggestion I found in the list archive for someone else with a
similar problem, I grabbed the
From: Jeff Sheinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Couldn't boot from CD on IBM ThinkPad 600X
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 13:49:10 -0500
Please post the patch directly to this list. The savannah web
interface is not working for me.
I have the same opinion. I often work in an off-line
Last week, you told me on the bug-grub mailing list that if I wanted to
be able to use the elf section table with grub, I should post a patch.
So that is what I have done :-)
This little patch is to be applied on a grub-0.5.96.1 source tree, that
I download on the Web.
I have tested it with
On Mar 31, Jeff Sheinberg wrote:
Jochen Hoenicke writes:
This reminds me of my booting from ZIP disk problem. I patched grub
to read a fixed geometry from the boot sector, just as DOS does it.
...
Please post the patch directly to this list. The savannah web
interface is not
On Mar 31, Thomas Lyon Gideon wrote:
[...] My BIOS apparently does not support the WD, so I had to install
EZ-BIOS into the MBR of both drives. My partition table looks like:
/dev/hda1 ext2 on /boot (I copied the grub images here, in grub, so they
are accessible from /boot/grub once Linux
I'd like to second that. That would be great. Especially if it would also
come with the size of that unused memory segment...
Can we pass the pointer to the first unused memory to the kernel being
booted by GRUB? That way i have to avoid reading all the pointers from
the multiboot struct to
Groman wrote:
I'd like to second that. That would be great. Especially if it would also
come with the size of that unused memory segment...
Can we pass the pointer to the first unused memory to the kernel being
booted by GRUB? That way i have to avoid reading all the pointers from
the