Re: A20 patch

2006-07-31 Thread David Seikel
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 04:29:44 +1000 David Seikel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:39:58 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so both -legacy and -2 are labelled alpha... I don't recall any message saying GRUB2 is now considered as stable as -legacy, do consider switching

Re: A20 patch

2006-07-24 Thread Molle Bestefich
Marco Gerards wrote: GRUB Legacy has always been alpha software too. I guess so.. AFAIK, GRUB Legacy still nukes your harddrive if you use the install command on drives off a HighPoint 374 controller in RAID0 mode.. ___ Bug-grub mailing list

Re: A20 patch

2006-07-23 Thread anders
Hi, Marco Gerards wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Before this gets out of control, I'd like to clarify a few things. There is too much confusion already. I'm very sorry I was the one who started this. :-/ snip That may very well be the case, but... GRUB2 has been rather heavily

Re: A20 patch

2006-07-23 Thread David Seikel
On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:39:58 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so both -legacy and -2 are labelled alpha... I don't recall any message saying GRUB2 is now considered as stable as -legacy, do consider switching to it. Is GRUB2's stablity on par with -legacy? Do you encourage users to make

Re: A20 patch

2006-07-22 Thread aeriksson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Friday 21 July 2006 11:58, Molle Bestefich wrote: Whom on earth wants to use alpha software as their boot loader? Oh, what a shameless comment. Nobody said such a thing when GRUB was born. If all people were like you, any new technology wouldn't be accepted or

Re: A20 patch

2006-07-22 Thread Marco Gerards
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Before this gets out of control, I'd like to clarify a few things. There is too much confusion already. I'm very sorry I was the one who started this. :-/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Friday 21 July 2006 11:58, Molle Bestefich wrote: Whom on earth wants to use

Re: A20 patch

2006-07-21 Thread Molle Bestefich
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: I would like to know your motivation. Why don't you use GRUB 2? Whom on earth wants to use alpha software as their boot loader? And how would it help everyone else with A20 problems if Mr. Gerards just goes and uses said alpha software himself?

Re: A20 patch

2006-07-21 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 21 July 2006 11:58, Molle Bestefich wrote: Whom on earth wants to use alpha software as their boot loader? Oh, what a shameless comment. Nobody said such a thing when GRUB was born. If all people were like you, any new technology wouldn't be accepted or developed. Note that nearly

Re: A20 patch

2006-07-19 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Monday 17 July 2006 21:35, Marco Gerards wrote: The A20 code of GRUB Legacy does not work in all cases, as some of you already know. For me the most important thing is that it does not work on my MacBook. Here is a backport from GRUB2's A20 code. The only change it the calling convention

A20 patch

2006-07-17 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, The A20 code of GRUB Legacy does not work in all cases, as some of you already know. For me the most important thing is that it does not work on my MacBook. Here is a backport from GRUB2's A20 code. The only change it the calling convention (regparm - stack). Okuji, can I commit this