From: Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installation documentation
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 11:18:40 -0400 (EDT)
> 1. Stage1.5 is limited - it only suppports 1 filesystem,
> that's why I don't use it.
I don't think that is a good reason. Stage 1.5 loads Stage 2 anyway,
and Stage 1.5 need not to support more than one filesystem for
that. That makes no sense.
> 2. With the blocklist eliminated from stage1, there is more
> room for assembly instructions.
Agreed.
> 3. This way is more in tune with the Hurd philosophy, why have
> limitations when they can be easily removed?
Hurd is not concerned with the GRUB philosophy, and the limitation
cannot easily be removed, as I have already mentioned.
Probably you do not understand the advatange that we have Stage
1.5. Some reasons might be found in the archive of this list. I think
that removing the blocklist in Stage 1 is a good task and should be
done in the future because of the second reason that you listed, but
we should not break Stage 1.5 to do the task.
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