From: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: initrd loading, max size, addr_min, and page_align
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2015 11:14:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54D79974.3080507@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150208200230.53f274fe@opensuse.site>
Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> В Thu, 5 Feb 2015 21:55:54 +0000 Eric Ewanco <Eric.Ewanco@genband.com>
> пишет:
>
>>
>> Background: I need to use a really large initrd for x86_64 (Linux 3.4.47),
>> and I'm near the limit, so I'm studying grub-core/loader/i386/linux.c to
>> find out the whys and wherefores of the GRUB 2.00 size limit.
>
> GRUB 2.00 is way too old.
But as far as I know grub-2.00 is the last "stable" release. There is the more
current grub-2.02~beta2 that was released over a year ago, but some people
prefer releases that upstream has designated as stable.
Has grub gone to a policy of git snapshots only and forgone stable releases?
-- Bruce
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-08 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-05 21:55 initrd loading, max size, addr_min, and page_align Eric Ewanco
2015-02-08 17:02 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-02-08 17:14 ` Bruce Dubbs [this message]
2015-02-09 3:30 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-02-09 4:04 ` Bruce Dubbs
2015-02-09 14:18 ` Eric Ewanco
2015-02-09 9:37 ` Michael Zimmermann
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