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bug #489: should work with uncommon formats of floppies

Submitter:  Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji>
Submitted:  Tue 28 May 2002 09:39:40 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Disk & Partition Severity:  Ordinary
Priority:  3 - Low Item Group:  Feature Request
Status:  Postponed Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  okuji Originator Name: 
Open/Closed:  Accepted Release:  None
Release:  0.92 Reproducibility:  Every Time
Planned Release:  None

Tue 28 May 2002 09:39:40 PM UTC, original submission:  

GRUB doesn't work with an uncommon format of a floppy, such as 1.68MB.
That's because GRUB relies on BIOS information too much. Support for
embedding a fixed geometry in a drive has already been implemented by
Thierry Laronde, but it's not integrated into the official version yet.

Okuji

Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji>
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