On Sun, Apr 16, 2017, 02:48 Paul Menzel <paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net>
wrote:

> Dear GRUB folks,
>
>
> The payloads for coreboot are normally LZMA compressed, as there is
> only little room on a flash ROM chip. Vladimir adapted SeaBIOS so it’s
> Multiboot compatible, so that SeaBIOS and the VGA Option can be easily
> loaded from the hard disk, and not the flash ROM chip.
>
> Trying to load such a compressed with the multiboot command¹, it does
> abort with the message, that the Multiboot header cannot be found.
>
Coreboot SELF format is not multiboot-compatible.

>
> Is the the multiboot command supposed to be able to deal with
> compressed files?
>
> If not, could you please tell me, if there is a way to load such a
> compressed file, and how?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
> ¹ By the way, the command `multiboot` and `multiboot2` are not listed
> in the overview of the GRUB manual [1].
>
>
> [1]
> https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Command_002dline-and-menu-entry-commands.html#Command_002dline-and-menu-entry-commands
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