On May 19,  6:54pm, "Jaromír" Dolecek wrote:
>it occurred to me the COMPAT_OLDBOOT code does not actually
>need to be there by default (or, at all). The newer style is supported
>since 1.3 and it's not likely that newer bootblocks would be ever used
>to boot older kernel. Is it even possible, BTW?

I don't know that I'd be happy about removal of COMPAT_OLDBOOT.  I use it
to make the kernel compatible with GRUB, rather than trying (and certainly
failing -- I'm not the world's best programmer ;-) to put new bootcode
into GRUB.

~Steve


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