Re: Booting a CD using grub-0.93

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 05:48:23PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> 
> Well, now the patch is adapted to a later version. It's a good thing. But I 
> don't think the patch has been cleaned up. As his patch changes core parts of 
> GRUB and too unreadable, I can't accept, regardless of how many people use 
> it.
> 
> I would be happy, if you or someone else could clean up the patch. It is not 
> easy, because the patch changes many things.

I think it's sad that for whatever reason Thierry has been alienated from GRUB
development.

I'm all for getting this patch integrated, but don't think I'm the most
indicate for that as I'm unfamiliar with stage1 internals and it'd take me a
lot of time to figure out what the i386 assembler code in stage1 is doing.

Chris, would you like to take that task?

-- 
Robert Millan

"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

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