Re: Multiboot/GRUB (was Re: Problems with printing postscript files)
Interesting that you bring that up. I believe the reason the we have not
used GRUB with Debian is that GRUB has been unable to load bzImage
kernels. Debian always uses bzImage kernels, ergo Debian hasn't been able
to use GRUB.
BUT!
It turns out that Gerd Knorr <kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de> has recently posted
some patches for GRUB to somp.os.linux.announce (see
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~wirzeniu/linux/cola.archive/1997-10/cola.1997-10-25.001)
that make it support Linux a bit better, i.e. floppy-less install, initrd
support, and (TA-DA!) bzimage support.
I think that we can now use GRUB with Debian. The question then
becomes... Who is going to do the packaging?
-Erik
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On 28 Oct 1997, Christian Leutloff wrote:
> Btw. Have we integrated the patches for multiboot in our Linux kernel?
> These are necessary to get GRUB (GRand Unified Boot loader, available
> from ftp://ftp.uruk.org/public/grub/) working.
>
> GRUB is a new boot loader designed for the Hurd and Mach systems, but
> it should also work with Linux, *BSD, ... It seems to be more flexible
> and much nicer than LILO. So I think that we should give it a try.
> Perhaps we get one boot loader for all our architectures.
>
> With the kernel patches GRUB is able to locate the kernel on the
> hard disk and to boot it directly. Command line options can also be
> modified before the kernel is booted and not only before rebooting the
> system.
>
> Bye
> Christian
>
>
> --
> Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany
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>
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>
>
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