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Re: Loading a 32 bit kernel from 64 bit grub-xen


From: Andrey Borzenkov
Subject: Re: Loading a 32 bit kernel from 64 bit grub-xen
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 20:18:14 +0400

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В Tue, 01 Jul 2014 12:06:08 -0400
Phillip Susi <address@hidden> пишет:

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> I have been trying to fix grub to load a 32 bit kernel from the 64 bit
> xen build.  After fixing up one or two minor issues with the elf
> loader, I believe I now have it to the point where it jumps correctly
> to the 32 bit kernel and it crashes there, since it is 32 bit code
> still executing on a cpu in 64 bit mode.  The question is how to
> return the cpu to 32 bit mode *under xen*?
> 

IIRC it was already discussed not long ago and it seems to be Xen
limitation. You probably need to ask on xen-devel to be sure.

Is it not more simple to use 32 bit grub with 32 bit kernel to start
with? 
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