From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1J7qWu-0006j5-Bl for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:04:00 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J7qWs-0006it-JX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:03:58 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J7qWq-0006i4-KZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:03:57 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J7qWq-0006i1-GS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:03:56 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J7qWq-00032H-55 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:03:56 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J7qWk-0003Um-U9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:03:55 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J7qW8-0008Ov-2Y for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:03:12 +0100 Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:03:12 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20071227110312.GA32231@thorin> References: <20071227100553.GB30225@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071227100553.GB30225@thorin> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Some grub2 problems/questions X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:03:58 -0000 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 I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)