[Fwd: Re: [LinuxBIOS] grub2 as payload [was: New wiki index page.]]

[Svante Signell]

Any comments from the Grub development crew?

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Stefan Reinauer <address@hidden>
> To: Svante Signell <address@hidden>, LinuxBIOS mailinglist
> <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] grub2 as payload [was: New wiki index page.]
> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:36:07 +0200
> 
> * Svante Signell <address@hidden> [061025 09:05]:
> > On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 23:35 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > > Great!
> > > 
> > > Now the only thing we should fix is
> > > http://www.linuxbios.org/index.php/Payloads
> > > where the list of possible payloads does not list Linux.
> > 
> > Sorry for jumping into this thread: What about grub2 (not grub legacy),
> > does it qualify as payload for LinuxBIOS?
> 
> In theory, yes, but grub2 is not there yet.
> 
> Two things are required to do this though:
> - add an ide driver in grub2. biosdisk is not the way to go.
> - add support for compiling grub2 as an elf image.
> 
> Stefan
> 
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Svante Signell <address@hidden>