Re: El Torito, odd floppies 0.92 working patches...

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

Thierry, I have some questions.

At Wed, 1 May 2002 19:58:15 +0200,
Thierry Laronde wrote:
> - booting from CDROM

Great.

> - booting from odd floppies format

Ditto.

> - Position independant stage1 (allowing to load another stage1 like a MS
>   classical MBR or another GRUB stage1 --- on another drive for example)

Where is this useful? Maybe my imagination is too poor.

> I have kept the include/arch-i386 new tree, but restored stage1 and grub
> (renamed grub-shell in a previous attempt). I think this should be a
> good compromise: only my new headers are in a new directory.

Why do you call it "compromise"? At the time when I and you talked
about new stage1, you didn't say anything about the reconstruction,
IIRC. Would you mind telling me what had you to stick to your revised
structure?

Thanks,
Okuji