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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