Re: Specification of BTINFO_CONSOLE value in bootinfo.h

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 10:02:32PM +0200, deco33000%yandex.com@localhost wrote:
> "which kind of defeats having a high level boot loader in first place"
> 
> Not if you plan to have multiple OS on the same hdd. Other than that, I fully agree.

But multiboot is meant to replace the custom boot protocols and free the
kernel authors from dealing with the common low-level setup. That's one
of the explicit design goals. Giving that up essentially means that the
only advantage of using multiboot is a somewhat formalised
specification.

Joerg