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Re: GRUB2 and Multiboot?
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Yoshinori K. Okuji |
Subject: |
Re: GRUB2 and Multiboot? |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:25:02 +0200 |
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On Monday 14 April 2008 04:52, Julian Salazar wrote:
> Sorry if I wasn't more specific, but I was talking about the multiboot
> draft at http://grub.enbug.org/MultibootDraft, specifically the Multiboot
> Information Format.
>
> > Or maybe you mean that the kernel should tell the bootloader whether the
> > control should be passed to it in the 64-bit mode?
>
> Exactly what I mean - maybe there should a flag of some kind, or a
> parameter...
The Multiboot Specification 2 will always pass control in 32-bit mode on
x86_64. I think this was the conclusion of a past discussion...
Okuji