From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4x3O-0004Wf-5d for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:11:26 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42233 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4x3L-0004W6-OK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:11:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4x3K-0000rZ-6v for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:11:23 -0400 Received: from mail1.slb.deg.dub.stisp.net ([84.203.253.98]:4104) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4x3J-0000rJ-T7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:11:22 -0400 Received: (qmail 92096 invoked from network); 30 Mar 2011 15:11:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.25?) (84.203.137.218) by mail1.slb.deg.dub.stisp.net with SMTP; 30 Mar 2011 15:11:19 -0000 Message-ID: <4D9347FE.2010506@draigBrady.com> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:10:54 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E1draig_Brady?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Colin Watson References: <20110329124031.GK9163@riva.ucam.org> <4D91DA91.4090108@draigBrady.com> <20110329151227.GL9163@riva.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20110329151227.GL9163@riva.ucam.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 X-Received-From: 84.203.253.98 Cc: The development of GNU GRUB 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: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:11:24 -0000 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.