Re: Disabling the ethernet driver !!!

[Klaus Reichl]

Hi GRUBies,

Long before starting with GRUB we had a bug with a boot monitor not
disabling an Ethernet chip, which corrupted kernel data structures
during booting occasionally (once every month on hundreds of systems
:-().   No need to tell you what troubles we had to find this one.

What I want to say is:

Make it a TOP LEVEL rule for GRUB development to take care about
disabling devices, interrupt system, et.al. whenever control is passed
to other software (reboot, boot, ...).

Maybe we {c,sh}ould have a common (destructor like) infrastructure to
disable things in various modules of GRUB in order not to take this
kind of ugly trap. 

KR
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