I've never used vmlinuz to boot, but I see files that pertain to vmlinuz. Any suggestions for how to boot bare metal using vmlinuz? Currently looking for solutions now. Thanks!
On Tuesday, November 26, 2019 at 8:50:59 AM UTC-5, Waldek Kozaczuk wrote: > > 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] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 3:30 PM <[email protected] <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>> > 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] <javascript:>> > > 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/c630c9c6-0009-4c56-80e9-7e6c7ac3f228%40googlegroups.com.
