On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 09:21:38PM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > Marco Gerards wrote: > > First of all, this is mainly for i386-linuxbios. On i386-pc we have > > to disable biosdisk support because ata.mod and biosdisk.mod do not > > like eachother :-). Perhaps disk access via the BIOS will not be > > possible/safe anymore after loading ata.mod. > > We have to make sure we are not using BIOS for accessing disk after that > point.
We already do (check for grub_disk_firmware_fini() function and grub_disk_firmware_is_tainted variable). But it has no effect on loaded OSes of course :-/ > And ATA controller should be at stable state after resuming > normal operations OR we install custom int13h handler. An int handler sounds like the sane thing to do.. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
