Sven Luther <sl at bplan-gmbh.de> wrote:
> > The multiboot program needs to know where the ramdisk is in memory.
>
> Perfect, i was confused, i though that, like the linux kernel, it would be the
> kernel who would know about that.
>
> multiboot also contains the elf-linker, which will load the unix kernel from
> the ramdisk, as well as all NEEDED files, right ?
>
> Those files are not loaded by multiboot itself, but multiboot takes adevantage
> of the underlying level (grub2 in the x86 case) to load the ufs or iso files
> during this loading phase, right ?
AFAIK, multiboot does not forward to GRUB for license reasons.
J?rg
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