On Sunday 24 February 2008 13:01, Vegard Nossum wrote:
My rationale is that it may be difficult to ensure that the header in fact resides within the first 8 KB of the kernel image.
Actually it is quite easy to ensure the header is within the first 8KB. Just pad the custom-object-format-of-choice with the multiboot header. The actual file will no longer be a standard object type, but will work. In practice, the 8KB limitation is not severe. Nearly every OS has a small assembly language file that ends up at the beginning of the image. Frequently, operating system vendors put pretty little copyright notices in this small assembly file. Adding a multiboot header is trivial. If one must mingle the multiboot header with executable code, just add a jmp instruction around the header. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
