boot2 broken ? (booting from pst fails)

Valentin Nechayev netch at netch.kiev.ua
Tue Apr 29 23:12:54 PDT 2003


 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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