Comment 9 for bug 423448
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| Felix Zielcke (fzielcke) wrote Re: [Bug 423448] [NEW] [Karmic] Today's update of grub-pcleftmy computernon-bootable | #9 |
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Am Freitag, den 04.09.2009, 08:27 +0000 schrieb Colin Watson:
> Dell have a
> set of BIOS extensions called EDD which let you do a little better,
> and
> it might be worth supporting those in GRUB's device.map code, but
> they're only supported on a fraction of today's PC-class computers.
I don't know how well EDD is today supported, but if I looked correctly
the kernel which handles this works only when it's loaded with the
16bit entry point and not the 32bit one.
So I don't think it's worth at all now that we use by default the 32bit
entry point.
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