[syslinux] BIOS disk geometry and Linux 2.6

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha strange at nsk.no-ip.org
Fri Feb 27 11:30:04 PST 2004


On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:27:29AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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?
> 

10944 bytes.

Regards,
Luciano Rocha

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