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RE: [Xen-devel] xen,bproc and grub

To: "Adam Sulmicki" <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Ian Pratt" <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] xen,bproc and grub
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 06:28:32 -0000
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> > > > We wrote a patch to add multiboot support to kexec (that's how 
> > > > Xenoboot works).  It was submitted to the kexec 
> maintainer, but I 
> > > > don't know whether it was accepted or not.
> > > http://www.tjd.phlegethon.org/software/kexec-multiboot.patch
> 
> argh, it seems to be using real-mode for booting, and it 
> seems multiboot specs seems to assume existence of pcbios.
> 
> i guess the right way will be just to strop xen.gz of all 16 
> bit code and have it loaded and started in 32 bit mode. In 
> that way kexec could treat xen like elf32-x86 type file.

I forget the context of what you're trying to do.

With Tim's multiboot patch, kexec is able to 'boot' into xen just fine.

I think Tim has recently been looking at how we could roll a xen and
dom0 image into a static multiboot file that is then wrapped to appear
like a standard linux bzImage. 

Ian


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