> You misunderstand the requirement. Stage 2 does not need to be fit
>in the first cylinder, but it must be represented as less than 8
>block-lists. When installing GRUB, GRUB attempts to collect contiguous
>blocks into one entry, so if your HDD is not fragmented, there is no
>problem. The reason why I recommended to use Stage 1.5 is that Stage
>1.5 is just much smaller than Stage 2, but not that Stage 1.5 is fit
>in the first cylinder.
Hmmm. Thanks for detailed explanation. Let me understand it much
clearer. Is there any restriction of the place of stage1.5 or stage2?
I may still misunderstand but I think stage1 loads stage1.5 or stage2
in real mode using BIOS code. So I think stage1.5 or stage2 should be
exist in the first 1024 cylinder area. If I can't use first large
partition (bigger than 1024 cylinder) due to some reason then last
resort for storing stage1.5 or stage2 is the first cylinder area.
stage2 is fat then I use stage1.5 for booting stage2 from second
partition area.
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Kunihiro Ishiguro
