[syslinux] BIOS disk geometry and Linux 2.6

[H. Peter Anvin]

I just had a sick idea.  Imagine an MBR which examines the partition 
table using the LBA values in the partition table, fixes them up, and 
then overwrites itself with data taken e.g. from Sector 1.

That way you could create your filesystems under Linux and completely 
ignore the geometry, then they would be fixed up.

Okay, so that won't work.

How about this: a COMBOOT/COM32 program queries for BIOS geometry and 
writes them into Sector 1 of the hard disk together with a signature 
Then you can read them from there.  Again, since you're actually writing 
the data to the disk, the BIOS:Linux drive mapping problem becomes trivial.

	-hpa