[syslinux] Re: grub compatible

[Gregg Lebovitz]

I don't know if it was a coding error, but someone made the assumption
that multiboot kernels could not have a search section (i.e. setup)
greater than 8192. I increased this search section to 32256 and it works
with memdisk and linux kernels.

Gregg

On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 17:31, Henrik Nordström wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> > The setup code is allowed to be 31.5K in size by specification.
> > I WILL NOT support Grub braindamage -- that just encourages the Grub
> > people to do more sh*t that we have to support in the kernel.  We've had
> > enough problem with Grub braindamage as it is.
> 
> This was caused by a coding error in GRUB. Fixed since some time back in
> the CVS versoin of GRUB (the fix not yet available in an "official"  
> release as far as I can tell).
> 
> Have no problems loading memdisk via current versions of grub. Works very
> nicely. Many thanks for memdisk, by bye boot floppies :-)
> 
> Regards
> Henrik
>