Re: stage 1

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Monday 01 March 2004 20:39, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> I think this bug isn't causing any trouble because most people use
> 1.44 floppies in a 1.44 floppy drive today. But it is a bug and
> should be fixed. I think the right fix is to move the jump to
> floppy_probe to just after chs_mode. What do you think?

No, because the floppy probing is intentionally disabled. It just hangs 
up on some Compaq machines.

See this bug:

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=489

As I said there, Thierry's approach is the best. His patch allows the 
user to embed a fixed gemeotry into a floppy, and it is not integrated.

Honestly speaking, I'm not keen to fixing this bug, because it will 
introduce an incompatibility in the format of stage1, and few people 
use uncommon formats of floppies actually.

Okuji