[LinuxBIOS] grub2 as payload [was: New wiki index page.]

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Svante Signell <svante.signell at telia.com> [061025 09:05]:
> On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 23:35 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > Great!
> > 
> > Now the only thing we should fix is
> > http://www.linuxbios.org/index.php/Payloads
> > where the list of possible payloads does not list Linux.
> 
> Sorry for jumping into this thread: What about grub2 (not grub legacy),
> does it qualify as payload for LinuxBIOS?

In theory, yes, but grub2 is not there yet.

Two things are required to do this though:
- add an ide driver in grub2. biosdisk is not the way to go.
- add support for compiling grub2 as an elf image.

Stefan

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