On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 05:00:18PM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> > maximum supported by BIOS". Although the help for the `geometry' command
> > would indicate that I could force it to recognize those extra cylinders,
> > executing `geometry (hd0) 1869 255 63' doesn't work, either.
>
> Don't do that! That works only in the grub shell. Haven't I written
> anything about this?
Perhaps. The output of `help geometry' doesn't indicate so.
> > I can access the whole drive after booting, both from Linux and from
> > Windows. I'm guessing something might have changed, but what? Can anyone
> > give me a hint where to look for anomalies?
>
> Read the file INSTALL. There's a new configure option. It is also
> mentioned in the file NEWS.
Thanks, I'll do that.
> > Also, I'm attaching more rewording/cleaning up patches for the
> > documentation, against the current CVS files. Please apply them, TIA.
>
> Thanks for your patches. But I can't be convinced of all of
> them. For example, why do you want to change the `dircategory'? GRUB
> does nothing about disk management. There are more such things. Please
> explain all the changes which are not trivial. If a change is just to
> fix a typo, you don't have to explain it.
GRUB doesn't do anything with the kernel, it just `invokes' it. It is
however used to boot from disk drives.
I'll take another look at my patches and explain changes, later.
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