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Re: Grub-devel Digest, Vol 140, Issue 25


From: Lennart Sorensen
Subject: Re: Grub-devel Digest, Vol 140, Issue 25
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 09:47:37 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 06:42:07AM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> Legacy BIOS is expected to do it as well.

It provides the device number it booted from?  Hmm, yeah I see it is
stored in the DL register.

> "BIOS" is often colloquially used for "firmware of my system".

True, but it isn't, and being a mailing list for a bootloader where the
difference is very important, it is not a good mistake to make.

-- 
Len Sorensen



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