From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Some grub2 problems/questions
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:03:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071227110312.GA32231@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071227100553.GB30225@thorin>
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:05:53AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 12:26:03PM -0800, walt wrote:
> > Hi grub group.
> >
> > Beginning with the commits of 2007-10-31 my two Athlon machines won't
> > work properly with grub2, and I'd like to find out why.
>
> It's a known problem. That's when we added the ATA driver. If you don't
> include ata.mod in your core.img, everything should be back to normal.
Btw, how come you enabled ata.mod. Did you explicitly request it?
It's a problem if our installer tools are misleading about this. We don't
want people to use ata.mod unless they understand the implications (e.g. you
won't be able to boot BIOS-based OSes like OpenBSD).
--
Robert Millan
<GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call!
<DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?
(as seen on /.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-27 11:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-26 20:26 Some grub2 problems/questions walt
2007-12-27 10:05 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-27 11:03 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2007-12-27 17:33 ` walt
2007-12-30 13:46 ` ata.mod hangs (Re: Some grub2 problems/questions) Robert Millan
2008-01-13 0:14 ` walt
2008-01-13 10:50 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-13 12:39 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-01-15 11:11 ` Marco Gerards
2008-01-13 19:10 ` walt
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