Re: Creating a bootable floppy

[Greg Ward]

On 21 September 2001, Adrian Phillips said:
> <rant with a touch of sarcasm>
> It really irritates me when people complain about OpenSource
> applications with out sending a patch.
> </rant>

Guilty as charged.  I don't very often take the time and trouble to dig
up source and submit patches; I know the world would be a (slightly)
better place if I did.  Maybe I'll be guilt-ridden into doing it now.
(OTOH, LILO is working just fine on my boot floppy, so I personally have
no burning need to make GRUB better.)

However, I do believe that a bug report without patch is much better
than no bug report at all -- assuming the developers don't actually know
about the bug, or don't realize how it's affecting people.

> <rant with a touch of sarcasm>
> And when they don't check the mailist list archive first as well  (or
> google or ...)
> </rant>

Yeah, I really hate that too.  Which is why I spent a good hour reading
the GRUB documentation, poring over the web site, and scouring the
mailing list archive before posting.  If I missed a recent thread
covering this, I do apologize.

        Greg
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