On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Lennart Sorensen <lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 06:52:46PM +0200, Thomas Frauendorfer wrote: >> Well, I think I didn't state the problem clearly enough: >> The bios doesn't write to the disk, it just changes the value on the >> fly when the bootloader is reading the bpb through a bios method. >> The workaroud also doesn't change the disk, it only reads the >> necessary information from a region the bios doesn't mess up on the >> fly... > > Still a bug. It can NOT assume things about what is being booted. > Don't assume FAT16 unless you checked explicitly that it is FAT16.
I know, that a bios must not assume anything about a file system it hasn't checked. But it does and I can't change that and because of that bug booting from an usb-stick fails on that mainboard (and most likely a few others at well). _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
