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 Sent from my iPhone > 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSv Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osv-dev/3C4E24E9-76B4-47A2-BEBE-61B0285B0F2F%40gmail.com.
