On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 04:51:22AM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> > changing to some other term would be better? For example "Booting"?
>
> That sounds a bit more reasonable than "Disk management". But what
> should we do about mbchk? The utility clearly belongs to the "Kernel"
> section, but it is documented by the same file.
Can't it be separated? If the texinfo format allows it, split it out.
> > And I (blindly) believe you. But my system indeed can do LBA, and I wish
> > GRUB would see it too, somehow, without needing to recompile.
>
> But don't forget that your BIOS has a bug in the LBA code. The spec
> says that bit 0 in the support bitmap must be set if AH=42h, 43h, and
> some others are supported. So the right thing is to fix your BIOS. The
> configure option is to avoid the bug.
I bet most people will prefer changing an option in a program than changing
their BIOS.
> BTW, you added a description about MBR into the tutorial, but the
> URL is not available. What happens?
Hm, weird, it was there when I checked... it seems the URL changed to:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~neilt/mbr-1.1.2.tgz. However, becuase
that's a `static' URL (i.e. depends on an exact version), and because
the dd commandline also depends on the exact size of the program, it
would seem better to skip detailed description, and just use:
@footnote{MBR is a custom master boot record, available at
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~neilt/}
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