Enabling GRUB to automatically boot from the kernel

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I am developing a kernel for an operating system. In order to execute it, I've decided to use GRUB. Currently, I have a script attached to GRUB's `stage1`, `stage2`, a pad file and the kernel itself together which makes it bootable. The only problem is that when I run it, you have to let GRUB know where the kernel is and how big it is manually and then boot it, like this: ``` kernel 200+KERNELSIZE boot ``` `KERNELSIZE` is the size of the kernel in blocks. This is fine and alright for a start, but is it possible to get these values in the binary and make GRUB boot the kernel automatically? Any suggestions on how to accomplish that?

Accepted Answer

I would imagine you could just make your own menu.lst conf file, load that at the grub shell with "configfile /path/to/menu.lst" and then do "setup (hd0)" replacing values as needed. I'm just guessing though.. no telling what the differences are on your custom setup.

Enabling GRUB to automatically boot from the kernel

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