From: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
To: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
Cc: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:10:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D9347FE.2010506@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110329151227.GL9163@riva.ucam.org>
On 29/03/11 16:12, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:11:45PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> On 29/03/11 13:40, Colin Watson wrote:
>>> +(called by
>>> +various names, such as the "boot track", "MBR gap", or "embedding area", and
>>> +which is usually at least 31 KiB),
>>
>> Maybe mention the original name/reason; "DOS compatibility region"
>
> Vladimir's reaction was that a casual reader might think "Huh? What
> does this have to do with compatibility". Do you have a reference for
> this being the original name?
No. I was basing this on terminology used in fdisk docs,
and on the original reason for the presence of this gap.
The "compatibility" refers to DOS being compatible with the disk layout,
as detailed at the link below.
>> I'll link to this node from http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/disk/
>> when it appears on line.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#BIOS-installation
>
> You might like to link to (or contribute to!)
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Images as well, in the
> context of your document.
I'll add both links.
cheers!
Pádraig.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-30 15:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-29 12:40 [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation Colin Watson
2011-03-29 13:11 ` Pádraig Brady
2011-03-29 13:29 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-03-29 15:12 ` Colin Watson
2011-03-30 15:10 ` Pádraig Brady [this message]
2011-03-29 16:26 ` richardvoigt
2011-03-30 19:00 ` Barry Jackson
2011-03-30 19:08 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-03-30 19:52 ` Colin Watson
2011-03-31 8:38 ` Barry Jackson
2011-04-12 12:33 ` Colin Watson
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