[openbeos] Re: Stage 1 Bootloader

En réponse à Axel Dörfler  <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

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> > the code) or in elf.
> > You get passed a pointer to a structure with parameters in one of the
> 
> > registers. (memory map, command line, loaded modules, etc.)
> 
> Well, as I said, I will have a look at it. If it is very similar to 
> what we need and want to have, I will make it compliant, but I (myself)
> 
> won't spend any time at improving GRUB to be able to load from a BFS 
> partition.
> Which means that you'd have to copy the files needed to a special 
> partition that GRUB can access, too, to boot with it, if you don't want
> 
> to use our stage 2 boot loader. Anyway, being multiboot compliant (even
> 
> if we are) won't mean that you can boot with GRUB the same way as with
> 
> the native loader. BFS is one reason, the driver settings are another,
> 
> and there might even be more.
> 
Anyway I think the R5 zbeos handles parameter itself (it's responsible for 
the 'boot menu' for example), it currently doesn't accept parameters from 
outside I think... 

Btw zbeos is still somewhat strange... in R4 it could be loaded as a Linux 
kernel from LILO (just like another vmlinuz), not it can't in R5... 
I suppose it's because it begins with a bootsector.

François.

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