grub 0.96 bug

[Molle Bestefich]

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Um, GRUB works fine for me, even on totally crazy RAID systems not yet
> supported by dmraid. There is a well-kept secret you need to know:
> You can install GRUB just fine IFF you boot from a GRUB boot floppy.
> NEVER (except for trivial configurations) use the GRUB shell running
> under any operating system.

Hrm.  I can see that would work, now..
Thanks for the tip, which renders my patch useless :-p.
(Nah, the patch makes the stage2 simulator work with device-mapped
devices, so I guess it can still be used for those... without a floppy
disk?  Or on a remote terminal.. or something :-).)