Re: Details on blocklist in stage2/stage1_5

[Bill Rees]

Why keep changing these locations?  I like the idea that another platform is
trying to use grub and nailing down at least a tiny protocol to handle
version info or the relocation of version info might be a good move for the
future.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden>
To: "Jason Ivey" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: Details on blocklist in stage2/stage1_5


> The last two bytes are not changed when installing GRUB. They are
> determined at the compile time. So you don't have to care about them.
>
> Anyway, I'd like to warn you that it would be hard to support GRUB
> with your product, because we sometimes change the boot protocol. Note
> that we assume that it is only for internal use. GRUB contains a
> version number which specifies which boot protocol to be used, so you
> might think it would be possible to support different versions
> simultaneously, but the location of the version number has changed a
> few times, and it will, definitely. So it would be difficult to
> identify the boot protocol correctly.
>
> Cheers,
> Okuji
>
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