From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: buggy BIOSes (Re: pretty colors in gfxterm)
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 21:46:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709032146.20849.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070902105254.GA18126@thorin>
On Sunday 02 September 2007 12:52, Robert Millan wrote:
> but I couldn't find this one from GRUB Legacy:
>
> 2005-02-15 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org>
>
> * stage2/builtins.c (install_func): If DEST_DRIVE is a hard
> disk, enable the workaround in Stage 1 by replacing the jmp
> with double nop's.
>
> * stage1/stage1.h (STAGE1_BOOT_DRIVE_CHECK): New macro.
> (STAGE1_BOOT_DRIVE_MASK): Removed.
>
> * stage1/stage1.S (boot_drive_check): New label. This implements
> a different workaround for buggy BIOSes which don't pass boot
> drive correctly. This is effective for BIOSes which pass a value
> without the seventh bit (0x80).
> (boot_drive_mask): Removed.
This has already been included, as far as I see the code.
> As for other changes, I can't find them. Did you have anything else in
> mind when you mentioned these workarounds?
No. The code in GRUB 2 looks more up-to-date than I thought. :)
Okuji
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[not found] <20070831144219.GA27818@thorin>
2007-08-31 14:47 ` buggy BIOSes (Re: pretty colors in gfxterm) Robert Millan
2007-09-02 10:02 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2007-09-02 10:52 ` Robert Millan
2007-09-03 19:46 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
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