Re: [Bug-grub] [PATCH] Re: address@hidden: Bug#110793: should not secretly pass options to the kernel]

[Derrik Pates]

On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Jason Thomas wrote:

> so this is only needed on older kernels? and isn't this already
> configurable using ./configure, my main concern was how many systems
> will I break if I change it in the debian package?

Why is it hurting anything? I was having a problem with Grub getting a
0-length mem range at 4 GB passed from the BIOS, but I have submitted a
patch to the maintainers (now in CVS) to prevent that situation. It's
probably not the worst thing for a sane bootloader to pass mem info to the
kernel it loads. And unless the info it's passing is known to be bad, why
prevent it from doing so?

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