From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4Yz9-0000Ur-Li for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:29:27 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58230 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4Yz7-0000Uj-Ko for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:29:26 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4Yz5-0006Nf-T5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:29:25 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:45583) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4Yz5-0006NV-MR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:29:23 -0400 Received: by wyf19 with SMTP id 19so181937wyf.0 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:29:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=ykNR+4A9QzrltGLz7Sgma0AOWMMb220vwPt1PXclszg=; b=AolZvSsDf71ccWNLQI8FTENpV0VgyvpHAG6Yll52/O2qle4wyVUVpNW7mugZMOlk/t QUZaW+475UPXk9G1sQaUjaQEpeebVsPSb35U7XoLRCEfn+g8Dn8aZpAYTW7HV71pZ3gN rtYIJLBw0XNCmwa87V9O08bVEXhKDRkYuC28s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=WbPQT79CB92m4B0R0CMzewa1eRQmgCIFiS5cs3bdvqXkRho/gqDbuFpdm35GuAe60E C0diozSDxtKPfan3VV1V4P+Kdv+x+PRNBXAElBgFUzDmoTracLss5F5Nbj08zYGg1psa WlcWKpksBzOW3g49gTBxevsW5mDCQu0e+BXQE= Received: by 10.227.196.2 with SMTP id ee2mr4970792wbb.129.1301405362666; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:29:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.x201.phnet (hg-public-dock-223-dhcp.ethz.ch [82.130.80.223]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y12sm2508430wby.25.2011.03.29.06.29.20 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:29:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D91DEA9.6020008@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:29:13 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110303 Iceowl/1.0b1 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <20110329124031.GK9163@riva.ucam.org> <4D91DA91.4090108@draigBrady.com> In-Reply-To: <4D91DA91.4090108@draigBrady.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig195F000B5ABE15CE26961043" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 74.125.82.169 Cc: =?UTF-8?B?UMOhZHJhaWcgQnJhZHk=?= , Colin Watson Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:29:26 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig195F000B5ABE15CE26961043 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 29.03.2011 15:11, P=C3=A1draig Brady wrote: > On 29/03/11 13:40, Colin Watson wrote: > =20 >> +@node BIOS installation >> +@section BIOS installation >> =20 > This is a good summary. > > =20 >> +(called by >> +various names, such as the "boot track", "MBR gap", or "embedding are= a", and >> +which is usually at least 31 KiB), >> =20 > Maybe mention the original name/reason; "DOS compatibility region" > > =20 I think this name would be misleading since one can think that one needs it for DOS to load or that DOS would overwrite GRUB if it's installed on the disk. Since this term is rarely used I'd prefer to omit it. > I'll link to this node from http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/disk/ > when it appears on line. > > cheers, > P=C3=A1draig. > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > =20 --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enig195F000B5ABE15CE26961043 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAk2R3qkACgkQNak7dOguQglqyQD8CMKCNVg0G88Ca8mWVUD1g7nq L6eYFkJMwmI9ZJqwPW8BAI6MHno3hGTXttNY7eI/8nvvTLUKMwwf5XsUKDP7h0MI =duox -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig195F000B5ABE15CE26961043--