On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 06:08:32PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 13, Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote: > > Or on devices where the firmware / boot loader doesn't support large > > disks, or only limited filesystems etc. Please don't ignore other > > people's use cases. > > Can you point me at some examples? > Excluding hardware which has been obsolete for many years...
Regrettably I keep seeing a smattering of bug reports against GRUB which turn out to be due to the BIOS having large-disk limitations, which on investigation turn out to be with BIOS versions released in the last couple of years. I don't have links for you (in many cases they're people turning up on IRC for support and the like), but the idea that BIOS vendors routinely bother to fix these kinds of bugs seems to be a myth. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111014132544.ga10...@riva.dynamic.greenend.org.uk
