[CapROS-devel] Re: Moving to multiboot
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From: Charles L. <cl...@ma...> - 2005-05-09 18:31:43
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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 > |