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List:       grub-devel
Subject:    Re: Self multiboot patch
From:       Marco Gerards <mgerards () xs4all ! nl>
Date:       2007-07-22 13:11:53
Message-ID: 87lkd8fuqu.fsf () xs4all ! nl
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Mikhail Vorozhtsov <mikhail.vorozhtsov@gmail.com> writes:

Hi,

> Here is a patch for booting GRUB via itself with multiboot
> module. Tested on [http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnX86]-alike floppy
> image and QEMU.

Great!

> BTW. When I'm trying to add some code/data before/in multiboot_entry
> in startup.S, GRUB hangs with "Loading kernel" message (even if it
> booted not via multiboot). How can I avoid it? It would be nice to
> print some message about invalid magic value, for example. But I just
> cannot add the code.

Hopefully someone else knows...

The good looks good to me.  Hopefully Jeroen or Okuji can give some
feedback on this.

Can you provide a changelog entry so when all is ok, the patch can be
applied?

--
Marco





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