I think the block adressing in the chainloader is meant. /herbert
At 16:29 06.12.2002, Yury Umanets wrote: >Hi GRUB hackers, > >I have a question. > >GRUB documentation contains the following text: > >Support multiple filesystem types > Support multiple filesystem types transparently, plus a useful > explicit blocklist notation. The currently supported filesystem > types are "BSD FFS", "DOS FAT16 and FAT32", "Minix fs", "Linux > ext2fs", "ReiserFS", "JFS", "XFS", and "VSTa fs". *Note > > >What does "blocklist notation" means? I as understand it correct, by reading code, >GRUB does not builds list of blocks like LILO. And it is okay, because not the all >filesystems stores file data in the unformated blocks (as you know reiserfs has >direct items for small files, which stored inside the tree). > >GRUB does some kind of mounting and reads file from the corresponding filesystem >instead. > >-- >Yury Umanets _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
