[openbeos] Re: Stage 1 Bootloader

Eike Dehling <e.e.dehling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On the kernel team page i spotted a new item: stage 1 boot loader. 
> Now when 
> you look on the internet you see tons of different boot loaders, each 
> doing 
> exactly the same thing: loading the second stage loader.

Short answer: nope :-)
That's not correct, if you would have read the description of the task 
you would know that the stage 1 boot loader loads the OpenBeOS "zbeos" 
equivalent from a BFS disk. Now, adding support to GRUB to be able to 
load from BFS is probably more complicated than only doing a very basic 
BFS loader  (though it probably have to be done in assembly, due to the 
lack of 16bit real mode compilers).

> Loading by multibooot standard would i guess e an item for R2, since 
> it 
> probably requires modifying the boot procedure. But not using yet 
> another 

I will have a closer look at the multiboot standard before defining the 
protocol between stage 2 and the kernel. If it's not too much work, I 
would try to be compliant, just to not have to change the protocol 
again in the forseeable future.

Adios...
   Axel.

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