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Date:      Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:55:52 +0300
From:      Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Toerless Eckert <eckert@i4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Subject:   Re: boot2 broken ? (booting from pst fails)
Message-ID:  <20030430055552.GA6089@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030414103655.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200304112357.BAA02170@faui40p.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <XFMail.20030414103655.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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 Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 10:36:55, jhb (John Baldwin) wrote about "Re: boot2 broken ? (booting from pst fails)": 

>> - Do you know wether Linux relies on virtual mode in booting their kernel ?
>>   because the vendor in my case is officially suporting linux. I guess i
>>   need to test setting that up and see if i can boot it from the disk.
JB> Linux doesn't have a bootloader like FreeBSD.

I can mistake but it seems to me GRUB works in protected mode. (Seeing
stage2/asm.S in grub-0.92.) If yes, TE can ask vendor to support modern
distributions with GRUB ;)


-netch-



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