Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:40:06 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: linux-2.4.0 breaks grub install into partition |
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Olivier Galibert wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 03:31:12PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > I see. Yes, Genesis writes to /dev/hda1, and if GRUB is writing to > > /dev/hda then I would agree 100% that GRUB is buggy. > > Why buggy? Grub knows about decoding partition tables and filesystems > (that's a killer feature for me), so why should it rely on the kernel > for that? I'd say that the kernel is buggy by having writes to > /dev/hda not being identical to writes to /dev/hda1 with an > appropriate offset. This violates the principle of least surprise > btw, there is only one physical device in there, and for no good > reason. >
There is no need for it to do that, under *any* circumstances. It is buggy because it is performing an operation which doesn't work and have never been promised to work.
Deal with it.
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