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Re: [multiboot] abstractmbi, modules


From: Seth Goldberg
Subject: Re: [multiboot] abstractmbi, modules
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:57:07 -0800 (PST)
User-agent: Alpine 2.00 (GSO 1167 2008-08-23)

Hi,

The latest version of Solaris xVM (based on Xen 3.4) is bootable from GRUB2, so that confirms that the bug was fixed in 3.4, so please give that a try.

 --S

Quoting Robert Millan, who wrote the following on Tue, 19 Jan 2010:

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 08:01:21PM +0100, Grégoire Sutre wrote:
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:

It's known problem: xen makes inappropriate assumptions about mbi placement

I'm wondering why it works with the NetBSD boot-loader.  What are these
assumptions?

Loader in GRUB 2 tends to put MBI and associated structures right after
payload code (unlike GRUB Legacy which uses a fixed location below 1 MiB).

--
Robert Millan

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