Re: Adapter for loading GRUB with GRUB.

[Timothy Baldwin]

On Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 09:31, adrian15 wrote:
> > I have written a header which may be copied onto the beginning of a GRUB
> > Legacy stage2, or a GRUB 2 core.img. The result may then be loaded by
> > GRUB as a Linux kernel.

> Possible applications.
>
>  Hi Timothy. I am working in an special grub disk with a lot of options and
> I asked myself if your grub adapter would be useful for my project.
>
> Which are the possible applications for it? Test different versions of grub
> within one menu?

Yes that's one use of it. 2 days ago on IRC, someone was asking how they could 
load GRUB from GRUB, as they needed to use a modified version.

> I am interested in knowing what have you done this patch for. What it is
> useful for? I just can't imagine it yet.

The original goal is to support loading GRUB from any Linux or multiboot 
bootloader, so that a OS installation script could install GRUB 2 before 
rebooting the computer for main part of the installer. However it needs code 
to enable A20 before that can work.


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