Re: start to work

2008-03-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:42:09AM +0100, Francesco Latino wrote: Hello, I suppose this is the right place for this kind of questions: if not, please excuse me in advance. I am really interested in understanding how GRUB works and growing my experience in Assembly development (I just

[bug #22398] GRUB makes BIOS poke CD-ROM at boot on Acer5633 notebook

2008-03-19 Thread Robert Millan
Update of bug #22398 (project grub): Status:None = Wont Fix Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: Sorry, but your BIOS

[bug #22398] GRUB makes BIOS poke CD-ROM at boot on Acer5633 notebook

2008-03-19 Thread Jelle Geerts
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #22398 (project grub): You're right. It's better to just edit the source. But there are users out there that have the same notebook and don't know how to edit/patch the source. Maybe this could be documented somewhere (FAQ?, not that it really is frequently asked

[bug #22398] GRUB makes BIOS poke CD-ROM at boot on Acer5633 notebook

2008-03-19 Thread Robert Millan
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #22398 (project grub): So essentially what you want is GRUB to include documentation about a bug that is in your BIOS? ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?22398

[bug #22398] GRUB makes BIOS poke CD-ROM at boot on Acer5633 notebook

2008-03-19 Thread Robert Millan
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #22398 (project grub): Now that I think of it, I don't see why the initialisation in startup.S should be playing with hard drives at all. Perhaps this should be moved to biosdisk.mod, and this way you can avoid it entirely by not loading biosdisk.mod (e.g. using

[bug #22398] GRUB makes BIOS poke CD-ROM at boot on Acer5633 notebook

2008-03-19 Thread Jelle Geerts
Follow-up Comment #5, bug #22398 (project grub): So essentially what you want is GRUB to include documentation about a bug that is in your BIOS? Well, essentially, yes. But is this such a weird idea? When people find GRUB not working the first place they will/should check is the documentation.