2005-04-02 13:09:02

by Matthias-Christian Ott

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Subject: some questions towards the boot sequence

Hi!
I'm currently developing a small OS. But I have some questions towards
the boot sequence:
Grub (0.9.6) is installed in the MBR of the Harddisk (512 Byte - Stage
1) than grub loads Stage 2 which is located at a fixed address
(specified in stage1.h), but how is this location linked to an inode and
marked as used (e.g. in the ext2/3 bitmap)? And doesn't it conflict with
the file system? And how can I instruct grub to load a file from a not
specified location which is maybe splited without updating it every time
the location changes?
Maybe there are some documents which include the answers to my questions
and some additional information.

Thanks
Matthias-Christian Ott