| Known problems/bugs: | |
| - The dumb terminal doesn't work properly. It doesn't work well with | |
| a long command-line, and when a non-empty command-line string is | |
| set, it doesn't work with Emacs expectedly. | |
| - The auto-filling mechanism doesn't work correctly with the serial | |
| terminal. | |
| - In the netboot code, tlan and fa311 are not used, even though they | |
| are distributed. That's because the entry for tlan is commented out | |
| in the file "NIC" of Etherboot, and fa311 isn't used actually in | |
| Etherboot. Probably they will be fixed in next version of Etherboot. | |
| - The command "geometry" doesn't work with a floppy very well. This | |
| bug was incorporated after the rewrite of the partition scanning | |
| code by okuji. | |
| - GRUB cannot boot newer versions of NetBSD or OpenBSD directly. | |
| - The command "map" seems not to work in some environments. | |
| - GRUB cannot boot any uncommon format of floppies, such as 1.68MB. | |
| Perhaps we should add support to embed a fixed geometry in a drive. | |
| - GRUB cannot boot FreeBSD 3.4 and 4.0 directly. So you must | |
| chain-load them instead. | |
| - FreeBSD boot command-line options are slightly problematic, and | |
| OpenBSD options are probably quite wrong. This is because they | |
| use options that are bits in a data word passed at boot time, and | |
| the developers change the encoding sometimes. Will re-sync in a later | |
| release. | |
| - If an "uppermem" command was used to tell GRUB it had a different | |
| amount of upper memory available, then the user escapes to the menu | |
| interface, the upper memory displayed there still says the amount | |
| set by the user instead of being reset to the default by the escape. | |
| It actually resets when the next command-line is entered or config | |
| file entry is executed. | |
| - There is at least one problem when using an "install_partition" that is | |
| a BSD sub-partition where the PC partition isn't explicit (i.e. | |
| the default 0xFF00FF is a problem)... this is when using "makeactive" | |
| without explicitly setting the root partition. If this is done, a | |
| "no such partition" error will be generated. | |
| - Cannot boot FreeBSD "kzip"ed image. Use a normal kernel (using GRUB's | |
| automatic "gzip" decompression works fine). | |
| - Hitting Ctrl-Alt-Delete when in GRUB locks some machines. Use Reset | |
| for now. (This apparently hasn't been observed for a while) |