Eric W. Biederman wrote:
"H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> writes:
Well, it doesn't help if what you end up with for some bootloader is a
nonfunctioning kernel.
I agree. We need to look at what is happening closely.
However just because we have some initial glitches doesn't mean we
shouldn't give up.
With grub you can say:
kernel --type=biglinux /path/to/bzImage
As I read the code it won't necessarily force the type of kernel image
grub will use but it will refuse to boot if it doesn't recognize
the kernel as the type specified.
The code for grub is in stage2/boot.c:load_image(). It tries a few
other formats before it tests for the linux magic number but
it won't recognize an ELF format executable unless it is a mutliboot
or a BSD executable.
This isn't just about Grub, though. There is probably about a dozen
bootloaders in use on i386, if not more.
-hpa
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