From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ack! grub bug...
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:57:47 -0500
> hrm, well... the thing is, hardware is out there, and more is coming
> out, where mem=XX simply will break on that machine. In the case of a
> broken bios (bad e820, etc.), the boot loader would need to pass memory
> regions to the kernel, so IMHO having the rule "always pass mem=XX by
> default" breaks on newer hardware.
So I said that that should be fixed in Linux. I don't change anything,
unless you give me a good explanation of why that shouldn't be
addressed by Linux.
> In an earlier message you said something like you cannot obtain the
> kernel version from a kernel image. Why not? At the very least, you
> could do a version check and not pass mem=XX for 2.4 kernels.
Ask Linux developers.
Okuji
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