OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The reason it should be done by GRUB is that it must be done from
> > real mode,
> No.
Well, of course it depends on *how* you do it. I was mainly talking
VESA2, and as you might know, the VESA2 Protected Mode interface is
all 16-bit (if it even exists; it's "optional" in the
implementation). Of course nothing hinders you from setting up a
graphics mode the "real way", but this makes it possible to use a
Multiboot system on a graphics card where no driver exists. This is
the key benefit.
> "Linux does so" is not any good reason at all. Linux _often_ does
> things in a bad way.
Yeah, I'm not at all a Linux freak, and I don't think the VESA2
situation is very nice, but since they "forgot" to make a real
protected mode interface, there's not much to it.
