On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 7:57 AM Albretch Mueller wrote:
> The way I am thinking about it is, if you were to sha*sum the file
> and this value would be the same as a previous run, you would know
> with almost total certainty that:
> a) you are booting the same machine(s you had selected, know
My exploratory question is based on the fact that I don't know if
there is that possibility and on which stage there already is enough
of an environment to run C code that was compiled using gcc on a
regular Linux-based machine. Or, should assembly be used? I think C
should be OK because
You say that your goal is to "run code" rather than add to grub itself, but
what would be running at that stage of the boot process other than grub?
On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 1:08 PM Albretch Mueller wrote:
> The way I understand GRUB2, since it must read the BIOS' data, you
> should be able to
I could imagine it should include SR 485 capabilities, CD and DVD ROMs, ...
lbrtchx
The way I understand GRUB2, since it must read the BIOS' data, you
should be able to run code resembling dmidecode, but what about, say
running sha512sum on the binary file dumped by: dmidecode --dump-bin
...?, and parsing and noticing specific differences on the sections
relating to different:
