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authorChristian Krinitsin <mail@krinitsin.com>2025-07-03 07:27:52 +0000
committerChristian Krinitsin <mail@krinitsin.com>2025-07-03 07:27:52 +0000
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+QEMU prepends pathnames to command lines of Multiboot kernels and modules, contrary to the specification
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+When QEMU is launched with the -kernel option to boot a Multiboot image, the command line passed in the -append option is additionally prefixed the pathname of the kernel image and a space. Likewise, module command lines passed in the -initrd option are passed with the module pathname and a space prepended. At the very least the former is contary to what is prescribed in the Multiboot specification, version 0.6.96[0], which says in ยง3.3:
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+> General-purpose boot loaders should allow user a complete control on command line independently of other factors like image name.
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+With respect to module command lines, the spec is less clear, but GNU GRUB2 (the de facto reference implementation) does not prepend pathnames to command lines of either. I haven't tested GRUB legacy, but I assume it exhibits the same behaviour. It would be strange if passing pathnames was in fact intended; bootloader pathnames are useless to the loaded kernel, which may potentially have a completely different view of the file system from the bootloader.
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+Also, given that a kernel pathname may contain spaces, skipping it in the command line cannot be done reliably, while loading a Multiboot module from a pathname that contains spaces is outright impossible.
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+Found in 4.2.0, but latest git master apparently behaves the same.
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+[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot/multiboot.html
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