Thierry Laronde wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 12:41:04PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote: > >>> One problem I found is that the new function "disk_changed" cannot be >>> so simple. The reason is obvious, if you see the Ralf Brown's >>> Interrupt List. Here's the very part at which you should take a look: >> >> I have worked with Ralf Brown's list too. My diagnostic is that this >> simple code should work 95% of time, and when it fails that simply >> creates a call to the diskinfo routines. So this should be OK to only >> return %ah, no need to bother with more --- at least for testing. > > Precision, this is correct because only _floppy drives_ are tested: the > bugs mentionned by the list are for hard disk. If some day, a support > for arrays of disks, or special removable disks is needed, the routine > will have to be changed. But for now, IMHO, let's keep this simple. >
Does this mean that i could boot off a 1.44M floppy on my 2.88M disk drive? _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
