Pekka,

Thanks for finding this. From what I remember I found multiboot not that widely 
supported comparing to vmlinuz. 

Please note that OSv vmlinuz is not compressed so we simply wrap loader.elf

I really need to revise the boot wikis 

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> On Nov 26, 2019, at 08:46, Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 3:30 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I just looked and I do not have any of those files anywhere on my system 
>> (did the find command).
> 
> Aah, my tree was not up-to-date. Looks like Waldek removed Multiboot support:
> 
> commit 2a34f9f2acb582b8351c3ca7cac0ac2ad18dfe2a
> Author: Waldemar Kozaczuk <[email protected]>
> Date:   Wed Jul 24 17:54:56 2019 -0400
> 
>     Remove obsolete loader.bin build artifact and related source files
> 
>     At some point long time ago the loader.bin artifact was added
>     as a way to boot OSv on multiboot bootloaders. Unfortunately it got 
> abandoned with time,
>     then resurrected with the commit e44133273ebdbb305b045b6a74c347a96cab9943 
> to allow
>     OSv boot on hyperkit in multiboot mode which never became fully 
> functional.
> 
>     Given that now we have Linux-compatible vmlinuz.bin artifact generated
>     than can be used to boot OSv on hyperkit, there is no need to keep this 
> arifact
>     around - the boot process and all kinds of its variation are complex 
> enough.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Waldemar Kozaczuk <[email protected]>
> 
> But, GRUB should be able to boot to "vmlinuz.bin" if it's really compatible 
> with Linux kernel.
> 
> - Pekka 

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