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It’s in the post, can’t you read? Also, something being low-level has nothing to do with documentation.

rcxdude 2y ago
You've complained about a lot of things, but I can only guess at what you are actually trying to accomplish, and you explicitly reject solutions which would actually resolve your problem. The first-party documentation for the linux kernel boot process is: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/x86/boot.txt https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/x86/boot.txt. It's not the kernel's job to get itself into memory and pass it the required information about the system. That's the bootloader's job. If you want to boot linux, either use one of the many existing distributions which package it in an easy to install manner, or read the documentation of your bootloader. If you want a guide on how to combine the linux kernel with other utilities to make a useful OS, read one of the many guides that exist on how to do that. This is why I asked what you actually needed, because for any reasonable goal I can think of, your post reads as "I've deliberately made this as hard as possible on myself".
- andrewmcwatters 2y ago
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- dang 2y ago
  Please don't respond to a bad or provocative comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. Telling someone that they've "complained about a lot of things" or have "deliberately made this as hard as possible on [themselves]" is against HN's rules and guaranteed not to land well, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. Your comment would have been just fine without those bits. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
sevg 2y ago
> can't you read Whenever you feel like attacking someone else's reading ability, perhaps take a deep breath and remember this HN guideline: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Energy might be better spent explaining/defending the points you made. Similar to what the person you're replying to has been doing.
dang 2y ago
You broke the site guidelines badly in this thread. That's not cool, and we've had to warn you about this kind of thing many times over several years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36316027 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36316027 (June 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36316001 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36316001 (June 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29959753 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29959753 (Jan 2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28375317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28375317 (Sept 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28375312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28375312 (Sept 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28200716 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28200716 (Aug 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27157863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27157863 (May 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26976826 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26976826 (April 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25129057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25129057 (Nov 2020) We have to ban accounts that do this and I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please stop doing this, that would be good. Please stick to HN's rules no matter how provocative another commenter is being or you feel they are being. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You've complained about a lot of things, but I can only guess at what you are actually trying to accomplish, and you explicitly reject solutions which would actually resolve your problem. The first-party documentation for the linux kernel boot process is: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/x86/boot.txt https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/x86/boot.txt. It's not the kernel's job to get itself into memory and pass it the required information about the system. That's the bootloader's job. If you want to boot linux, either use one of the many existing distributions which package it in an easy to install manner, or read the documentation of your bootloader. If you want a guide on how to combine the linux kernel with other utilities to make a useful OS, read one of the many guides that exist on how to do that. This is why I asked what you actually needed, because for any reasonable goal I can think of, your post reads as "I've deliberately made this as hard as possible on myself".

andrewmcwatters 2y ago
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dang 2y ago
Please don't respond to a bad or provocative comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. Telling someone that they've "complained about a lot of things" or have "deliberately made this as hard as possible on [themselves]" is against HN's rules and guaranteed not to land well, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. Your comment would have been just fine without those bits. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

sevg 2y ago

> can't you read Whenever you feel like attacking someone else's reading ability, perhaps take a deep breath and remember this HN guideline: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Energy might be better spent explaining/defending the points you made. Similar to what the person you're replying to has been doing.

dang 2y ago

You broke the site guidelines badly in this thread. That's not cool, and we've had to warn you about this kind of thing many times over several years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36316027 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36316027 (June 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36316001 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36316001 (June 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29959753 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29959753 (Jan 2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28375317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28375317 (Sept 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28375312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28375312 (Sept 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28200716 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28200716 (Aug 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27157863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27157863 (May 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26976826 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26976826 (April 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25129057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25129057 (Nov 2020) We have to ban accounts that do this and I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please stop doing this, that would be good. Please stick to HN's rules no matter how provocative another commenter is being or you feel they are being. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html