[syslinux] BIOS disk geometry and Linux 2.6
Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha
strange at nsk.no-ip.org
Fri Feb 27 10:50:56 PST 2004
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 10:38:38AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 10:01:33AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >
> >>>And don't some boot loaders use sector 1?
> >>
> >>None that I know of. I know someone on this list (Murali?) is
> >>successfully using it for some installation stuff.
> >
> > Doesn't grub use it for the 1.5 stage? (When needed)
> >
>
> I haven't seen that.
>
I had to hunt down grub's info but:
While Stage 2 cannot generally be embedded in a fixed area as the
size is so large, Stage 1.5 can be installed into the area right
after a MBR, or the boot loader area of a ReiserFS or a FFS.
On one of my systems it does seem to exist a e2fs_stage1_5 on mbr+1 (27
bytes differ).
Regards,
Luciano Rocha
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