[CapROS-devel] Re: Moving to multiboot

[Charles L. <cl...@ma...>]

Jonathan:

[I'm replying on the capros-devel list which is the appropriate one 
for this. I took the liberty of subscribing you to the list so you 
could receive this reply.]

Thanks for the suggestion and the link. I'll add it to the to-do 
list. Your input is always welcome.

>Charlie:
>
>One thing I would very definitely do in capros is get rid of the boot
>sector logic. It's horrible. At the time I wrote it, the multiboot
>standard did not yet exist and Brian and Erich had not yet created the
>Grub boot loader. Grub is unarguably superior to the EROS boot loader,
>and much of the work that the current boot loader does is handled better
>by grub.
>
>The multiboot specification, which describes the kernel entry
>environment, can be found at:
>
>http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot/multiboot.pdf
>