Re: booting grub, loading kernels and unloading kernels question

[Marco Gerards]

"adrian15" <address@hidden> writes:

> Can we boot grub
> and boot linux
> so that
> linux don't write on grub reserved memory (let's say first 640k)
> And then make an special halt command
> that halts linux and boots again grub? (without rebooting)

GRUB depends on the BIOS to function.  I think linux changes the
hardware state too much.  So even if you can return to GRUB, I don't
think the hardware state is reliable enough for GRUB or the BIOS to
function reliably and properly, if it is possible at all.

> Currently I want an easy way of showing an image with a lot of colours in 
> grub without having to code vesa and all of that. (Talking about grub 
> legacy, as always ;) ) 

No.

> If this works... I will need to know how to patch the kernel and how to 
> strip gnu/linux distro to have only the display command or equivalent to 
> show images in framebuffer or equivalent.

Sorry, but I don't think it works like you hoped it would.

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Marco