From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Next release?
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:21:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1216164117.9604.8.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807160115.07363.okuji@enbug.org>
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 01:15 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> OK. Then how do you install GRUB into (hd1) in a development machine, which is
> (hd0) in a booting machine? When GRUB may not correctly determine BIOS
> drives, do you want to just give up?
The boot drive can be determined at boot.
Granted, there are buggy BIOSes, but we handle it already. All we need
is to encode into the bootloader that it was installed on a hard drive
(actually, not on a floppy, real or emulated), and the bootloader would
use 0x80 rather than the value from BIOS.
We don't need specific drive numbers like 0x81. We need one bit of
information, and we can figure it out at the install time.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-15 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-14 13:03 Next release? Pavel Roskin
2008-07-14 16:55 ` Christian Franke
2008-07-14 20:27 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-15 5:40 ` Christian Franke
2008-07-20 21:10 ` Christian Franke
2008-07-15 13:49 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-15 15:07 ` Patrick Georgi
2008-07-15 18:39 ` Christian Franke
2008-07-15 18:32 ` Christian Franke
2008-07-15 21:04 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-07-15 22:31 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-15 23:15 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-07-15 23:21 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2008-07-15 23:32 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-07-15 23:52 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-16 14:11 ` Colin D Bennett
2008-07-16 14:17 ` Javier Martín
2008-07-16 16:17 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-16 16:28 ` Javier Martín
2008-07-16 16:08 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-19 15:14 ` device.map (Re: Next release?) Robert Millan
2008-07-21 21:26 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-22 21:36 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-22 21:57 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-22 22:08 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-22 22:46 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-19 15:06 ` Next release? Robert Millan
2008-07-19 20:16 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-07-19 20:59 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-21 20:48 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-22 21:37 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-22 22:01 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-22 22:09 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-22 22:41 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-24 17:02 ` Marco Gerards
2008-07-24 17:18 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-24 21:47 ` Christian Franke
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2008-07-16 0:22 chaac
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