[syslinux] BIOS disk geometry and Linux 2.6

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

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