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grub package

  1. Bug #27969
  2. Comment #25

Comment 25 for bug 27969

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In , Otavio Salvador (otavio) wrote : Re: Bug#345931: If the problem is that the user doesn't know he won't be able to reboot...

Kapil Hari Paranjape <email address hidden> writes:

>> option C, we create a way to extract the version information from every
>> grub file. So that the grub shell can check that its version matches
>> the stage files and if not generate an ERROR message.
>
> Note that stage1 is a boot sector and so contains precious little
> space for such version information. Implementing this option seems
> quite difficult to me.

I'm not sure but I think we might try to include the version string at
stage1 and match it when loading stage1.5 or even stage2. Would work,
no?

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