Re: Reserve a boot-loader ID number for Xen

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sun Sep 10 2006 - 13:59:47 EST


Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
Dave Jones wrote:
> 4 for ETHERBOOT
> + 5 for ELILO
> + 7 for GRuB
> + 8 for U-BOOT
> + 9 for Xen
> V = version
> 0x211 char loadflags:

Is there a reason 6 has been skipped ?

HPA told me to use 9. Maybe there's an unofficial user for 6?


6 was skipped because I couldn't rule out that it hadn't been unofficially used. It seemed easier to skip it for now.

-hpa
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