[syslinux] BIOS disk geometry and Linux 2.6

[H. Peter Anvin]

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> 
> 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).
> 

How big is this thing?

	-hpa