How vmlinux is recognized?

mindentropy mindentropy at gmail.com
Thu May 12 12:46:19 EDT 2011


> This way, GRUB doesn't need to know how to decode ELF
> files and the job is left to the kernel code. 

GRUB has a elf decoder, but it should have multiboot header.
http://osdev.berlios.de/grub.html#multiboot

Hope this answers your doubt.



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