"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:54:59 -0600:
> Also, it's technically possible for the bootloader to switch into extended > mode before loading the kernel, but not done (in GRUB, at least) for solid > technical reasons. (IIRC, there's some memory mappings that have to be > set up before entering extended mode.) That's something I've actually always wondered, so it's interesting to see a bit on it. Is there anything not /too/ technical* but somewhat more detailed you could point me to? *I'm not a C/C++/ASM coder, but understand the terminology well enough to find many LKML discussions interesting, for instance, and I'd say I follow about half of the LWN kernel page articles, enough to have found myself recently correcting (I think/hope) some inaccuracies in a Linux.com article by Joe Barr, for instance, see the article and comments following here, my comment should be obvious, given its length <g>: http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/12/14/1910259 -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
