Re: ack! grub bug...

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: Jeff Garzik <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: ack! grub bug...
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 10:02:39 -0500

> This will solve the problem... for problematic machines.  However, it is
> merely a bandaid... policy is that mem=XX is an -override- parameter, to
> be used only when necessary.  IMHO we should move back towards
> defaulting grub to --no-mem-option in general, in the future. 
> (apparently, it cannot be done now, for the general grub release)

Agreed. I keep that in mind. I guarantee that we will change the
default behavior, once a public version is released, so that we can
introduce some incompatibility.

> As for now, I think MandrakeSoft will make a vendor patch that defaults
> to --no-mem-option, since we can control our kernel versions a bit
> more...

Because I don't like that there are so many variants of GRUB, what do
you think about that we add a configure option into the official GRUB,
so that you can change the default behavior optionally? For example:

$ ./configure --disable-automatic-linux-mem-option

With this option, all you need to modify is grub.spec, and you don't
have to touch the source code itself.

Okuji