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Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes: > >> Well, it doesn't help if what you end up with for some bootloader is a >> nonfunctioning kernel. > > I agree. We need to look at what is happening closely. > However just because we have some initial glitches doesn't mean we > shouldn't give up. > > With grub you can say: > kernel --type=biglinux /path/to/bzImage > > As I read the code it won't necessarily force the type of kernel image > grub will use but it will refuse to boot if it doesn't recognize > the kernel as the type specified. > > The code for grub is in stage2/boot.c:load_image(). It tries a few > other formats before it tests for the linux magic number but > it won't recognize an ELF format executable unless it is a mutliboot > or a BSD executable. > This isn't just about Grub, though. There is probably about a dozen bootloaders in use on i386, if not more. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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