On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 07:58, mike padlipsky wrote: (Most snipped for bandwidth... )
> 4] regardless of whether you wrote the code or are in charge of the > manual, if you are fluent in c i'd very much appreciate your taking a > look at the code [i haven't written/read c since 1977 and at my age am > not about to reboot myself into that arena] and telling me EXACTLY > what grub does to make the mapping happen. what bit/bits are set > where? does it 'talk' to the bios, muck w/ the mbr, muck w/ the sbr, > what? [and if it's not implicit in the answer to that one, what makes > you/grub think that the effect won't be persistent?] Yes, I too would like to know just what 'map' does, and - specifically - does it affect GRUB's own addressing (as in later 'root' commands for instance) - does it change any settings that will persist after a reboot? - similarly, how does 'hide' work? I do recall that after much study of the manual, a few months ago, I couldn't find anything explicit on those points > or am i going to have to ask dennis to take a look at the code for > me....? > Namedropper! <g> cr _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub