[syslinux] Re: grub compatible

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Sep 5 14:52:00 PDT 2002


Gregg Lebovitz wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> I appreciate you taking the time to answer my emails. I realize it may
> be frustrating to have a random person ask you novice questions.
> 
> Looking at the grub code, it appears the 8192 limit in the code is
> somewhat arbitrary. There appears to be more than enough buffer space to
> support the 13.5K size you mentioned below.
> 
> I will pass this onto the grub folks. They may be willing to increase
> the buffer to 13.5K in the released version.
> 
> As far as the changes go, I worked on the memdisk code because it gave
> me an excuse to learn the i386 architecture and instruction set. If you
> want to toss my changes, feel free.
> 

31.5K, not 13.5K.

No, my frustration isn't with you, it's with GRUB.  They keep wanting to
do things "their way" instead of following the specs.

	-hpa





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