Re: ack! grub bug...

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: Jeff Garzik <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: ack! grub bug...
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:57:47 -0500

> hrm, well... the thing is, hardware is out there, and more is coming
> out, where mem=XX simply will break on that machine.  In the case of a
> broken bios (bad e820, etc.), the boot loader would need to pass memory
> regions to the kernel, so IMHO having the rule "always pass mem=XX by
> default" breaks on newer hardware.

So I said that that should be fixed in Linux. I don't change anything,
unless you give me a good explanation of why that shouldn't be
addressed by Linux.

> In an earlier message you said something like you cannot obtain the
> kernel version from a kernel image.  Why not?  At the very least, you
> could do a version check and not pass mem=XX for 2.4 kernels.

Ask Linux developers.

Okuji