From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1E3BKU-00080X-3V for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:34:34 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E3BKO-0007wV-MQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:34:29 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E3BKL-0007uD-NW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:34:26 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3BKK-0007bt-NZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:34:24 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E3BMu-0001lX-4F for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:37:04 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2E9A8A6F for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:22:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19125-01 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:32:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F6528A59 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:22:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07CC7C046 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:22:09 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <200508071939.45278.okuji@enbug.org> <42FA2608.80600@mauery.com> <42FA377E.5040701@yahoo.fr> <42FA3BFD.1000208@mauery.com> <42FA5C8D.9090609@gmail.com> <42FA6733.2060003@yahoo.fr> <87k6isx27a.fsf@student.han.nl> <42FB2F1A.3010109@yahoo.fr> From: Marco Gerards Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:22:09 +0200 In-Reply-To: <42FB2F1A.3010109@yahoo.fr> (Vincent Pelletier's message of "Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:57:30 +0200") Message-ID: <87slxgra5a.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: GRUB 1.90 is released 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, 11 Aug 2005 11:34:31 -0000 Vincent Pelletier writes: > Marco Gerards wrote: >> Can you tell me how to reproduce it? > > I had problems with one of those (damn, I can't remember now) on 720kB > floppy (erm... not really important by itself, but couldn't it be a > symptom of a deeper bug ?) but it was a while ago - when I was working > on the port and on the "play" command. > mkfs accepted without error to create the filesystem, linux was able to > mount it, store files, fsck passed. But grub displayed unaligned pointer > errors. Can you send me an image of this floppy? >> They are, but that should not be any problem. > > I also don't think we could find any file big enough to need 3 levels of > indirection. It can be a problem if someone uses the loopback command. Thanks, Marco