Re: [syslinux] Using memdisk with grub2 and a gzip-compressed ISO

[Andrei Borzenkov]

В Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:17:02 -0700
"H. Peter Anvin" <address@hidden> пишет:

> On 04/23/2015 07:23 AM, David Shaw via Syslinux wrote:
> > 
> > I'm not sure if this is related to the problem, but note the length
> > in the "Ramdisk" line from grub legacy is one byte shorter than the
> > length from grub2.  Also note that the length given in the "gzip
> > image" line is shifted one byte to the left in the grub legacy
> > version (i.e. it's exactly 0x100 times larger).
> > 
> 
> That would definitely break using a compressed ramdisk.

It does not break for kernel. What makes is so different in case of
syslinux?

>                                                        And yes, this
> is why the length is wrong.
> 
> This would be a Grub2 bug.
> 
>       -hpa
> 
>