Re: [CapROS-devel] Re: Moving to multiboot

[Sandro M. <sm...@na...>]

I used grub to boot the embedded capability operating system I wrote for 
my fourth year project, so I could probably help out with this.

Memory's a little rusty on the spec, but here's the boot code I used if 
it helps:

http://naasking.homeip.net/prog/projects/cnos/current/src/kern/boot.c

I'll have to dig into the EROS boot code to figure it out first I imagine.

Sandro


Charles Landau wrote:
> 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