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.
OG.
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