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I think it would be great to have multiboot support in grub.
As a matter of fact without it grub cannot load xen on arm.


On Wed, 21 Jan 2015, Fu Wei wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> any suggestion for my patchset?
> if these patches look fine, can they be merged?
>
> Any feedback is welcome! :-)
> Great thanks !
>
> On 9 January 2015 at 00:38, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
>       On Fri, 2014-12-19 at 01:55 +0800, Fu Wei wrote:
>       > Signed-off-by: Fu Wei <fu.wei@linaro.org>
>       > Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
>
>       I've tested the code at
>       git://git.linaro.org/people/fu.wei/grub.git#multiboot_xen_support_upstream_v4.0
>       which I believe is the same as this posting on an AMD Seattle system
>       with a 40_custom containing:
>
>               menuentry 'Baremetal' {
>                       insmod gzio
>                       insmod part_msdos
>                       insmod ext2
>                       set root='hd0,msdos2'
>                       search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root d4178d5c-96a8-46ee-a304-0d87baa545cd
>                       linux /boot/vmlinuz console=ttyAMA0,115200n8 earlycon=pl011,0xe1010000 root=/dev/sda2 rootwait
>               }
>               menuentry 'Xen' {
>                       insmod gzio
>                       insmod part_msdos
>                       insmod ext2
>                       set root='hd0,msdos2'
>                       search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root d4178d5c-96a8-46ee-a304-0d87baa545cd
>                       multiboot /boot/xen no-bootscrub console=dtuart conswitch=x dtuart=/smb/serial@e1010000 noreboot
>       sync_console dom0_mem=256M dom0_max_vcpus=1
>                       module /boot/vmlinuz-xen console=hvc0 earlycon=pl011,0xe1010000 root=/dev/sda2 rootwait
>               }
>
>       (my system is too confused for 10_linux or 20_linux_xen right now, but I
>       believe this is representative of what they would emit)
>
>       The result was that I could boot both Baremetal and Xen via grub. So:
>
>       Tested-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
>
>       I've not looked at the code (although I did review several older
>       iterations), would it be useful to the grub maintainers for me to do so?
>
>       Ian.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Fu Wei
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