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Re: 512MB limit


From: Yuri Zaporogets
Subject: Re: 512MB limit
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 15:03:52 +0300
User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5i

Hello Okuji,

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:40:18PM +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:

> Unfortunately no, since GRUB is tied with BIOS. A solution is to write
> a device driver so that GRUB can interact with your hard disk directly
> rather than via BIOS, but I doubt if that is worth doing.

In my opinion, it's not hard. We don't need all that fancy stuff
like UltraATA-200 etc, but only a plain set of PIO R/W routines.
I have the experience of porting such stuff from Minix; when we will
have a Modular GRUB, I might try to write this module.

-- 
Regards,
Yuri.



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