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Re: Some grub2 problems/questions
From: |
Robert Millan |
Subject: |
Re: Some grub2 problems/questions |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:03:12 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:05:53AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 12:26:03PM -0800, walt wrote:
> > Hi grub group.
> >
> > Beginning with the commits of 2007-10-31 my two Athlon machines won't
> > work properly with grub2, and I'd like to find out why.
>
> It's a known problem. That's when we added the ATA driver. If you don't
> include ata.mod in your core.img, everything should be back to normal.
Btw, how come you enabled ata.mod. Did you explicitly request it?
It's a problem if our installer tools are misleading about this. We don't
want people to use ata.mod unless they understand the implications (e.g. you
won't be able to boot BIOS-based OSes like OpenBSD).
--
Robert Millan
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