From: Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: a LBA-related problem and a few docs patches
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 12:40:17 +0200
> This seems to be a change in behaviour, and gratuitous one, too, because it
> worked before. Therefore I'm filing this as a bug to the Debian BTS. One
> could argue that it's of higher severity, because it effectively made my
> system unbootable, but there is a workaround (loading a kernel image from
> <1024 cyls).
A person said that it was a bug for GRUB not to check the bitmap,
and now you say that it is a bug for GRUB to check the bitmap. *sigh*
Clearly, the one which has a bug really is your BIOS. Not GRUB. Sorry,
this is just a complaint.
> Please provide a run-time switch/option to enable us people with Gigabyte
> BX2000 motherboards with Award 4.51PG BIOSes, and >8GB hard drives to boot
> properly :)
Yeah. If you propose the interface, I'll implement it soon.
> * I moved "@c %**end of header" magic line a little down in the file
> because I saw other documents use that (texinfo), and otherwise it seemed
> logical to include those tags in header, not text.
But there is no benefit. The magic is effective for only a few
macros. The other changes are good.
Okuji
