Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> reported to me privately
that his BIOS hanged up if LBA read call was invoked. So the current
implementation of GRUB won't work in his environment. Fortunately, his
BIOS returns the support bitmap correctly. This is in the opposite
case against the case
From: Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is automake really good?
Date: 03 Feb 2000 11:11:20 -0600
> Please wait on this issue until we have a chance to talk more about
> the scripting language. It will give us a way to generate portable
> Makefiles, so I'd rather you not spend t
From: Per Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Graphics support for Multiboot
Date: 02 Feb 2000 11:04:11 +0100
> No, I guess you're right. How about this one?
That sounds very good, except for an obvious typo in the Multiboot
header. If no one has any objection, I'll check in the patch.
> OKUJI Yoshinori writes:
OY> OK, I don't fully agree with your claim, but I'll consider more
OY> about if GRUB should live with Automake.
Please wait on this issue until we have a chance to talk more about
the scripting language. It will give us a way to generate portable
Makefiles, so
> OKUJI Yoshinori writes:
OY> This is almost equivalent to flushing the cache
OY> when the prompt is displayed, because GRUB does nothing anyway
OY> until the user pushes the enter key. I don't know why Gordon
OY> discarded the code exactly, but perhaps he misunderstood it since
OY> it i
OK, I don't fully agree with your claim, but I'll consider more
about if GRUB should live with Automake.
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From: Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: grub 0.5.93.1 failure to initialize root/geometry on (fd0)
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 16:50:18 -0500 (EST)
> Grub will either report false information or go into an infinite
> loop when the disk media on (fd0) is physically changed.
Thanks for your
> "OY" == OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
OY> But there are still a lot of people who are using FreeBSD
OY> 2.x. (I can understand why they don't upgrade it, because 3.x
OY> was originally assumed that it would be a temporary release.)
Yeah, I can understand that.
From: Per Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is automake really good?
Date: 03 Feb 2000 10:04:42 +0100
> I'm not sure if you really should have to do so. Do we really have to
> support older systems? I mean, FreeBSD 2.2.8 is rather old.
That's a good question. Ignoring old systems is al
> "OY" == OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
OY> What I want to do is to use as and ld directly instead of
OY> calling them through gcc.
I'm not sure if you really should have to do so. Do we really have to
support older systems? I mean, FreeBSD 2.2.8 is rather old.
Anywa
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