yes. multiboot support went in a few months ago and we can, for example, load vmware esxi.
I wonder why you would want to chainload grub, however, instead of using u-root programs that read grub config files and do the boot directly? There are reasons to use grub, of course, but I was curious about your specific reason. thanks ron On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 8:54 PM Matt B <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > It is possible through u-root support for multiboot images [1] to chainload > grub? > > -Matt > > [1] https://godoc.org/github.com/u-root/u-root/pkg/boot#MultibootImage > > On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 2:48 PM ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Esxi works today freebsd is coming and windows is in Long term thinking >> >> On Fri, Apr 12, 2019, 11:46 AM Rafael Send <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Good question, I'd be interested in the answer to this as well if anyone >>> has some insight. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> R >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 7:45 AM Matt B <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Greetings, >>>> >>>> From what I can find, Linux can only chainload another linux kernel. (via >>>> kexec) Does this mean that a Linux payload like LinuxBoot cannot be used >>>> to boot Windows or another OS, either directly or by chainloading another >>>> payload from CBFS? >>>> >>>> It's nice that a Linux payload can provide superior flexibility and >>>> configurability than UEFI with the added benefit of a battle-hardened >>>> environment, but the ability to only boot a Linux OS seems like a pretty >>>> significant limitation (if this is indeed the case). >>>> >>>> Sincerely, >>>> -Matt >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
