On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 02:32:04PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > 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.
Huh ? if grub exports a clear api, then there are no licencing problems. It is not like if you would link with it. Friendly, Sven Luther
