From: Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Graphics mode support
Date: 12 Nov 1999 21:03:20 -0600
> Does that sound good?
No. His opinion is to add the feature into the Multiboot
Specification but not only into GRUB's own implementation.
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I've released version 0.5.93.1 of the GRand Unified Bootloader. You
can get it from:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-0.5.93.1.tar.gz
Check out http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html for more
information. OKUJI Yoshinori has been doing th
> OKUJI Yoshinori writes:
OY> Anyway, I don't think it is worth to continue this discussion
OY> only with you any more. I can't persuade you and you can't do
OY> me. That's all. Thus, I'd like to know what other people think
OY> about this issue.
I would like to delay this issue until
From: Michael Hohmuth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Patch: new "modaddr" builtin
Date: 12 Nov 1999 14:53:56 +0100
> I have appended a patch that adds a new "modaddr" builtin command to
> GRUB. This command specifies the load address for Multiboot modules.
> It can only be used after a Multiboot k
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Graphics mode support
Date: 12 Nov 1999 09:13:57 +0100
> Yes, of course -- if the specs are available, which isn't always the
> case.
So do you want to encourage the vendors which sell "proprietary
hardware"? Don't you know I'm a fan of GNU?
> Besides, VES
I have appended a patch that adds a new "modaddr" builtin command to
GRUB. This command specifies the load address for Multiboot modules.
It can only be used after a Multiboot kernel has been loaded.
We found we needed a command like this because sometimes the memory
locations of modules conflic
OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Of course nothing hinders you from setting up a graphics mode the
> > "real way", but this makes it possible to use a Multiboot system
> > on a graphics card where no driver exists.
> It is much better to write the driver, isn't it?
Yes, of cours
