Re: 512 Mb grub bug

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:11:54PM -0500, david l goodrich wrote:
> I'm a bit hesitant to modify the boot record of a working OS, is
> a grub menu.lst like this subject to the 512mb limit?
> 
> ---
> default 0
> timeout 1
> 
> title NetBSD (wd0)
>  root (hd0,0,a)
>  chainloader +1
> ---

This should be safe, because grub won't try to read the ffs in this
case.

> 
> That should pass me straight to the netbsd bootloader and I can
> then use that to load the xen kernel.  Right?

yes.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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