taskGNU GRUB - Tasks: task #10029, making Linux Multiboot-compliant

 
 

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task #10029: making Linux Multiboot-compliant

Submitter:  Robert Millan <robertmh>
Submitted:  Sat 02 Jan 2010 10:41:13 PM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Fri 01 Jan 2010 11:00:00 PM UTC Should be Finished on:  Fri 01 Jan 2010 11:00:00 PM UTC
Priority:  3 - Low Status:  Cancelled
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed

Sun 03 Jan 2010 02:08:37 PM UTC, comment #2: 

I've been pointed out about an utility that converts a Linux image into a Multiboot-compliant ELF:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/wraplinux/

Someone could verify that the result is usable by GRUB?

Robert Millan <robertmh>
Group administrator
Sat 02 Jan 2010 11:06:02 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Note: If you're a GRUB developer or plan to develop code for GRUB, be careful when reading Linux source code.  The license of Linux (GPLv2-only) is incompatible with that of GNU GRUB.  So if you read GPLv2-only parts of code that implement similar things to the ones in GRUB, you will be unable to contribute code for similar areas in GRUB.  You have been warned :-)

Robert Millan <robertmh>
Group administrator
Sat 02 Jan 2010 10:41:13 PM UTC, original submission:  

It'd be nice if the kernel Linux was made Multiboot-compliant, or at least if a patch that works with modern versions was available, so that end users and/or Linux-based distributions could use it.

It seems there has been some effort in this direction:

http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0112.1/0056.html
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0112.2/0372.html

But it's been partly lost in time (the newer patches are now 404'ed).

Robert Millan <robertmh>
Group administrator

 

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