[syslinux] BIOS disk geometry and Linux 2.6

[H. Peter Anvin]

Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com wrote:
> Hmm...
> 
> Writing to the disk from your bootloader.
> 
> I can think of all kinds of situations where we completely screw the system
> doing this. You would have to have some kind of very rigorously controlled
> environment to have a hope of not messing things up.
>

This is not for a general boot loader, remember.  This is for an
*installer*, which will wipe disks anyway.

	-hpa