linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found...

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Message-ID: <46B07F82.1090808@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:41:38 -0400
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	bbpetkov@...oo.de
CC:	Xudong Guan <xudong.guan@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found...

Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
> if i do delete here, it loads the second stage of grub and continues to load the
> kernel. Is there another way to land at the jmp instruction instead of poking
> blindly, maybe disassemble something parts of the initial code. \me reading
> grub-docs...
> 

Oh lovely.  The purpose of this was to intercept the running of the 
kernel setup code.  If grub doesn't load it at a 64K boundary, it is 
hard to guess what it would do.

I'll do some experiments with qemu here and see if I can figure out a 
way to get it to trap at the right point.

	-hpa
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