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    SubjectRe: linux-2.4.0 breaks grub install into partition
    Olivier Galibert wrote:
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    > 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.

    -=hpa

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