From: Ingrid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New commands to allow booting obscure OS's from logical disksin extended
partiton
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 12:32:10 -0500
> i think this issue is growing very rapidly, because the size of
> a new hard drive has reached a point where this issue comes to
> a head.
I expect that PC emulators (such as Plex86) will be more common
soon, though. ;-)
> okuji: thanks for grub, and i agree with your overall concern
> about hacks, but what about adding a link to stefan's patch
> somewhere, maybe an experimental extensions section of the doc?
That's all right, but I can't promise that his patch will be applied
cleanly in the future.
I understand what you and Stefan want to mean, but my situation
doesn't change. Because you are going to a wrong
direction. Apparently, they (I don't know who they were :p) have
already devised a much better way, that is to say, extended and
logical partitions. Although the worst thing is the limitation of the
number of primary partitions, the next worse is that many operating
systems don't have support for installing themselves into logical
partitions. So what you should do is to ask the maintainers to extend
the operating systems or to write patches for them yourself. Adding a
workaround into GRUB is the last resort, from my point of view.
Okuji
