Message-ID: <69fe7948@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: Converted EXT4 is Slow to Check Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <10svt92$p5k9$2@dont-email.me> <10tbc82$1nih$8@dont-email.me> <34socmxtjb.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10tdp1u$oc5h$4@dont-email.me> <5nlrcmxkk3.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10tgb3b$1gi8h$3@dont-email.me> <10tgfgr$1hnhm$2@dont-email.me> <10th55g$29nne$1@news1.tnib.de> <69fd1991@news.ausics.net> <10tk7rs$2o64m$1@dont-email.me> User-Agent: tin/2.6.5-20251224 ("Glenury") (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 9 May 2026 10:01:12 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 53 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:86259 Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2026-05-08, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: > >> Carlos E.R. wrote: >>> On 2026-05-07 06:41, Marc Haber wrote: >>>> Nuno Silva wrote: >>>>> On 2026-05-06, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, 6 May 2026 13:36:37 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote: >>>>>>> AI Overview >>>>>>> >>>>>>> GRUB Stage 1.5 is an intermediate bootloader stage in GRUB Legacy (0.9x) >>>>>> ^^^^^^ >>>>>> >>>>>> Note that information is out of date. >>>>> >>>>> It's not out of date in that it applies to so-called "GRUB Legacy". Or >>>>> has that changed in newer releases of "grub1"? >>>> >>>> The last release of grub 1 was 21 years ago, noone is still using it, >>>> and giving that information as reply to a question about grub in 2026 >>>> is at least misleading. >>> >>> I know people using lilo today, which is even older :-) >> >> I just booted the PC I'm posting from with "Grub Legacy", running >> an old Linux. But for some reason I couldn't make it boot newer >> Linux kernels so I switched to using Syslinux/Extlinux with them >> because the design of Grub 2 is insane. > > That even sounds weird, Grub "1" shouldn't need much stuff to boot a > kernel, you point to it, you provide the command line. So I wonder what > was failing. Something else? Something related to a possible initrd? Sorry, I have zero memory left except I didn't find explaination online fer the errors I did get. Syslinux/Extlinux looked just as good, so I didn't want to turn it into a day-long project wading through mailing list archives and looking at source code to figure out what changed. I do know it's not just Grub though. Older versions of LOADLIN for booting Linux from MSDOS won't boot newer kernels (even if no initrd is used). An updated version here, "the newer 1.6f which should work with nowadays kernel", does: https://youpibouh.thefreecat.org/loadlin/ If you have time to compare the source code to see what changed, let me know, I just saw I'm out of time now just for writing this reply... -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#