Sorry if I wasn't more specific, but I was talking about the multiboot draft at http://grub.enbug.org/MultibootDraft, specifically the Multiboot Information Format.
> Or maybe you mean that the kernel should tell the bootloader whether the > control should be passed to it in the 64-bit mode? Exactly what I mean - maybe there should a flag of some kind, or a parameter... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pavel Roskin Sent: April-13-08 8:14 PM To: The development of GRUB 2 Subject: Re: GRUB2 and Multiboot? On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 13:55 -0600, Julian Salazar wrote: > Hello, > > I've got some questions about GRUB2 relating to the Multiboot Draft: > > It seems like GRUB2 passes the start tag with a key of 1, bootloader name > with a key of 2, etc. > But the Multiboot draft says that the start tag has a key of 0, bootloader > name has a key of 1, etc. > Which one is right? One or the other has to be changed... You may get a better answer if you quote the specification (and where you found it) and the piece of code that appears wrong to you. I looked into multiboot.texi in GRUB 1 CVS, and I don't see the word "tag" there. > Suggestions: > I think that the multiboot tags should be explicitly (in the multiboot spec) > passed in order (i.e. that a tag with a key of 5 should always go before one > with a key of 7) Maybe a bootloader should give an x86-64 kernel the option > to either boot it into 32 or 64 bit mode? Or is that asking for too much? I don't think having a dual-mode kernel would be a good idea. Either it would be two kernels glued together, or it would be essentially a 32-bit kernel with option 64-bit extensions - hardly a good idea for a kernel. And in the later case, it would be better to use a parameter, like "enable-64bit". Or maybe you mean that the kernel should tell the bootloader whether the control should be passed to it in the 64-bit mode? -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
