[syslinux] BIOS disk geometry and Linux 2.6

[Jeremy Katz]

On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 10:29 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.

Too many people want to do dual boots, so you can't count on wiping
disks.  Not to mention disks with existing data that you want to
preservce.  If only I could wipe disks, my life would be much easier :-)

Jeremy