From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ack! grub bug...
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 10:02:39 -0500
> This will solve the problem... for problematic machines. However, it is
> merely a bandaid... policy is that mem=XX is an -override- parameter, to
> be used only when necessary. IMHO we should move back towards
> defaulting grub to --no-mem-option in general, in the future.
> (apparently, it cannot be done now, for the general grub release)
Agreed. I keep that in mind. I guarantee that we will change the
default behavior, once a public version is released, so that we can
introduce some incompatibility.
> As for now, I think MandrakeSoft will make a vendor patch that defaults
> to --no-mem-option, since we can control our kernel versions a bit
> more...
Because I don't like that there are so many variants of GRUB, what do
you think about that we add a configure option into the official GRUB,
so that you can change the default behavior optionally? For example:
$ ./configure --disable-automatic-linux-mem-option
With this option, all you need to modify is grub.spec, and you don't
have to touch the source code itself.
Okuji
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