--disable-auto-linux-mem-opt (Was: Re: ack! grub bug...)

2001-02-27 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
With the CVS version, you can now specify `--disable-auto-linux-mem-opt' to the configure script. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: ack! grub bug...

2001-02-23 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ack! grub bug... Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 19:29:04 -0500 Because at that point, we are working around a grub-specific problem in the kernel, which is caused by grub working around a now-resolved kernel problem! :) It's a workaround

Re: ack! grub bug...

2001-02-23 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ack! grub bug... Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 10:02:39 -0500 This will solve the problem... for problematic machines. However, it is merely a bandaid... policy is that mem=XX is an -override- parameter, to be used only when necessary. IMHO we

Re: ack! grub bug...

2001-02-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: As for now, I think MandrakeSoft will make a vendor patch that defaults to --no-mem-option, since we can control our kernel versions a bit more... Because I don't like that there are so many variants of GRUB, what do you think about that we add a configure option

Re: ack! grub bug...

2001-02-22 Thread Christoph Plattner
Hello, as I already described before, my prefered solution to the problem is the use of a kind of variables in GRUB like $MEM, $IP, $SERVER_IP, etc, etc,... So the user can decide himeself using kernel paramters, like kernel /boot/vmlinuz mem=$MEM root=/dev/hda2 etc If

Re: ack! grub bug...

2001-02-22 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Christoph! as I already described before, my prefered solution to the problem is the use of a kind of variables in GRUB like $MEM, $IP, $SERVER_IP, etc, etc,... I was unaware of your proposal. It's an excelent idea, much better than my "--mem-option". Regards, Pavel Roskin

Re: [Jeff Garzik jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com] Re: ack! grub bug...

2001-02-22 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Christoph Plattner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED]] Re: ack! grub bug... Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:16:16 +0100 So the user can decide himeself using kernel paramters, like kernel /boot/vmlinuz mem=$MEM root=/dev/hda2 etc If there is enough

Re: ack! grub bug...

2001-02-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: From: Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ack! grub bug... Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:06:01 -0500 (EST) I believe that "--no-mem-option" should become default. "--mem-option" should be introduced instead for the kernels that still

Re: ack! grub bug...

2001-02-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Pavel Roskin wrote: grub -always- passes the "mem=XXX" command line option to the kernel. it's always been that way... It works around a kernel bug. That is wrong in and of itself. A kernel bug fix belongs in the kernel, not in grub. I remember a

Re: [Jeff Garzik jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com] Re: ack! grub bug...

2001-02-21 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED]] Re: ack! grub bug... Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 23:40:39 +0100 (CET) It works around a kernel bug. That is wrong in and of itself. A kernel bug fix belongs in the kernel, not in grub. You're just talking about an utopia

[Jeff Garzik jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com] Re: ack! grub bug...

2001-02-21 Thread Pixel
: MandrakeSoft Internal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ack! grub bug... In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Lines: 43 Xref: leia.mandrakesoft.com mail.mandrake:8147 On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Pixel wrote: Jeff Garzik