Re: Multiboot(8) command-line format/parsing

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

On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 06:33:34PM +0100, Grégoire Sutre wrote:
> This started with the fact that, in GRUB 2, the command-line passed
> to the kernel does not contain the kernel itself, i.e. with the
> command
> 
> multiboot (hd0,1,a)/netbsd -z root=wd0a

That sounds like a regression compared to the legacy version and
compared to what e.g. Xen is using internally. Both provide at least an
empty first argument, IIRC. In fact, I consider it is a bug that GRUB
doesn't pass down the locator of the kernel.

Joerg