Re: grub 0.90 prevents Standby in Windows

[Thierry Laronde]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:37:26PM +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> At Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:35:24 +0200,
> Thierry Laronde wrote:
> > Thanks for the explanations Erich! I think indeed that the `boot' call
> > should put the machine back in the clean state --- for example, with
> > extended floppy formats, I have backed-up the INT 1E but at the moment,
> > even if I change it I haven't put the code to restore it after...
> 
> That's right. So I was thinking of adding something like "hook" to
> restore the system status before booting, to make it easy to extend
> GRUB features... But that might be difficult to implement in a generic
> way without real memory management support (which is, of course, one
> of things I'd like to add into a future version of GRUB).

Perhaps could we make the policy that everything customized by GRUB for
GRUB internal must be reverse at the very end before passing relay to
another OS, and put a `restore_all' function in `boot', and everybody
having to put in this restore_all the code to 
reverse the changes he made (this function being mainly arch dependent).
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