On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 02:03:14AM -0700, Ben Liblit wrote: > In early August I posted a description of problems I was having using > GRUB as a boot loader on my machine. A lengthy discussion ensued; see > <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-grub/2001-August/thread.html#5353> > for the archive. > > By the end of August we had concluded that get_diskinfo_floppy() should > be removed and get_diskinfo_standard() modified to not use it. I > presented a patch to implement this change. There were no followup > comments, but more than a month later the patch has not yet been > applied.
Well, I'd like to know if the patch would be applied or not, since to allow the use of non standard floppies formats, I need to copy the info from stage1 to variables (defined in asm.S, reused by C code, namely in init_bios --- in common.c), and the way floppies are handled at the moment is not optimal for that. Since I will give the patches in the very next days for CD booting and extended floppy formats, I would like to give patch for the correct version, and not an obsolete one (at the moment, CD booting for all options, including HD emulation, is OK; the support for extended floppy format is OK for stage1, start.S, but now I must modify the remaining of stage2). Note: since I have heavily reworked stage1.S, I broke compatibility (raised to 4.0) [this only means that you need to use compatible stage1, stage2 and grub shell if you install from an OS, not that the user interface has changed]. Are there two branches in GRUB cvs, stable and unstable? Or can we start (?) to flag a version as a stable one, letting new versions for alpha available for tests? Thanks, -- Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Site Debian Francophone (aka SDF) : http://www.debian-france.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
