From: Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: trying grub 0.5.92
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 20:46:17 -0400 (EDT)
> root=(hd0,6)
> kernel=/usr/lib/hwtools/memtest86.bin
> memtest86.bin [Linux-zImage, setup=0x0, size=0x2d00]
> boot
I don't know what memtest86.bin is. Is it really compatible with
Linux?
> causes grub to hang. If seems to me that specifying `root=(hd0)'
> here is essentially meaningless, so that grub should just load and
> boot the chainloader at (fd0)+1, is that a correct interpretation?
No. When chainloading other bootloader, GRUB passes the boot drive
to the bootloader in the register %dl (Do not ask me why %dl is
used. This is just a convention.). And GRUB should provide us the way
to set the boot drive to an arbitrary value, whether the drive at which
the bootloader is located differs from the boot drive that we specify
or not. It is up to the user to set the root to a correct drive, isn't
it?
> 3. I like the new command completion, however, I have some
> suggestions for a few improvements here,
[snipped]
> the emacs C-p, C-n keystrokes? (I would be happy with a 1
> item history list).
Your suggestions have already been achieved by Klaus partially. And
the rest is the very things that I want to do.
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