Re: Details on blocklist in stage2/stage1_5

[Bill Rees]

Well I have written boot loader code for a couple of different architectures
(ppc, mips and x86) so I'm kind of  familiar with some of the problems.
I'll take a look more closely at the grub code and see if I can propose
something.

bill


----- Original Message -----
From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden>
To: "Bill Rees" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Jason Ivey" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: Details on blocklist in stage2/stage1_5


> At Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:08:38 -0700,
> Bill Rees wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Have you even written any boot loader yourself? MBR is too small, so
> the implementation is always tricky. That means that it isn't feasible
> to keep things unchanged.
>
> Okuji
>