stefan and okuji discussed breaking the four primary partitions
limit; the need for it; concerns about hacks; and a couple ways
to address the issue.
i wanted to comment, offer my help, and ask for a couple things
(at the end). i apologize in advance for the (inadvertent) puns
that lie ahead.
From: Ingrid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: New commands to allow booting obscure OS's from logical disksin extended
partiton
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 12:32:10 -0500
i think this issue is growing very rapidly, because the size of
a new hard drive has reached a point where this issue comes to
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
From: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: BUG ? Feature :-) (was: BUG with grub menus)
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 17:39:36 -0400 (EDT)
I am changing my view on how this problem arose to be a documentation
oversight and to ease the use of GRUB
We already know their advantages and disadvantages. Don't repeat the
same discussion meaninglessly. If you just want to insist on your
preference, you may make your own variant of GRUB. Nothing prevents
that.
Okuji
Hello!
Some programs (namely GNU GRUB) don't compile with linux-2.4.0-test5. It
turns out that the following two-liner can only be compiled without
optimization:
#include string.h
#include linux/fs.h
Indeed, if we look into /usr/include/bits/string.h
