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Re: booting grub, loading kernels and unloading kernels question
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Marco Gerards |
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Re: booting grub, loading kernels and unloading kernels question |
Date: |
Sat, 04 Feb 2006 13:45:15 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
"adrian15" <address@hidden> writes:
> Can we boot grub
> and boot linux
> so that
> linux don't write on grub reserved memory (let's say first 640k)
> And then make an special halt command
> that halts linux and boots again grub? (without rebooting)
GRUB depends on the BIOS to function. I think linux changes the
hardware state too much. So even if you can return to GRUB, I don't
think the hardware state is reliable enough for GRUB or the BIOS to
function reliably and properly, if it is possible at all.
> Currently I want an easy way of showing an image with a lot of colours in
> grub without having to code vesa and all of that. (Talking about grub
> legacy, as always ;) )
No.
> If this works... I will need to know how to patch the kernel and how to
> strip gnu/linux distro to have only the display command or equivalent to
> show images in framebuffer or equivalent.
Sorry, but I don't think it works like you hoped it would.
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Marco