Hi Peter,
First, thanks for this doc. It's good to have.
Second, where would I find earlier versions of it?
And where will they be found in the future?
A few typos/edits are corrected below.
~Randy
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> Most boot loaders will simply load the kernel at its target address
> directly. Such a boot loader do not need to worry about filling in
s/do/does/
> most of the fields in the header. The following fields should be
> filled out, however:
s/out/in/ [to match 2 lines up: "filling in"]
> if ( protocol >= 0x0200 ) {
> type_of_loader = <type code>;
> if ( loading_initrd ) {
> ramdisk_image = <initrd_address>;
> ramdisk_size = <initrd_size>;
> }
> if ( protcol >= 0x0201 ) {
s/protcol/protocol/
> /* It is recommended to clear the following memory */
> memset(0x90000 + (setup_sects-1)*512, 0,
> (64-setup_sects-1)*512);
> }
I don't know about this, but I'm curious if
(64-setup_sects-1) shouldn't be (64-(setup_sects-1)) ==
(64-setup_sects+1) ?
Or maybe the length isn't critical.
> **** SPECIAL COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
>
> If the command line provided by the boot loader is entered by the
> user, the user may expect the following command line options to work.
> They should normally not be deleted from the kernel command line even
> though not all of them are actually meningful to the kernel.
s/men/mean/
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