Re: How to call dban fron grub ?

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 11:25:57AM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:35:09 +0200
> Felix Zielcke <address@hidden> wrote:
> [..........]
> > > 
> > > Does anyone of you have the luck to call dban from grub2 ?
> > > 
> > >   
> > 
> > Try with the old linux loader with linux16 and initrd16
> [..........]
> 
> WORKING !! it is working :-) you are a hero.

I wonder why doesn't our current linux loader fail gracefuly and tell user
to use linux16.  I thought we had code specifically to do this!

  if (! (lh.loadflags & GRUB_LINUX_FLAG_BIG_KERNEL))
    {
      grub_error (GRUB_ERR_BAD_OS, "zImage doesn't support 32-bit boot"
#ifdef GRUB_MACHINE_PCBIOS
                  " (try with `linux16')"
#endif
                  );
      goto fail;
    }

  /* FIXME: 2.03 is not always good enough (Linux 2.4 can be 2.03 and
     still not support 32-bit boot.  */
  if (lh.header != grub_cpu_to_le32 (GRUB_LINUX_MAGIC_SIGNATURE)
      || grub_le_to_cpu16 (lh.version) < 0x0203)
    {
      grub_error (GRUB_ERR_BAD_OS, "version too old for 32-bit boot"
#ifdef GRUB_MACHINE_PCBIOS
                  " (try with `linux16')"
#endif
                  );
      goto fail;
    }

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