Re: Loading below 1 MB

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

From: "Andrew Markebo" <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Loading below 1 MB
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 21:54:06 +0200

> > Isn't GRUB supposed to support *all* features of the Multiboot standard?
> 
> If you help us fix them - yes :-)

That's a completely different issue here. Viktor misunderstands what
"specification" means. We don't need to support loading an OS image
below 1MB to comply with the Multiboot Specification, because it
doesn't require such a feature. That is only for convenience and the
"least surprising" policy. So when one asks if GRUB is fully
Multiboot-compliant even though GRUB doesn't support that, I answer,
"Yes, definitely. Why do you think GRUB isn't compliant? Does the spec
require a Multiboot-compliant boot loader to support anything you
want?"

Okuji