From: Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: the size restrictions for FAT and ext2fs stage1.5
Date: 06 Mar 1999 10:38:48 -0600
> All I know is that ext2fs has a reserved ``bootloader'' inode, but I'm
> not sure how it is used. I was under the impression that it was
> possible to put a bootloader into the filesystem itself, not just a
> reserved area.
I didn't know it. Using EXT2_BOOT_LOADER_INO for stage1.5 is good
idea! In this case, the minimum size will be 1024 (the minimum block
size of ext2fs) * 80 (the maximum block-list length in stage1) =
80kilobytes.
> The main thing that bugs me is that the ffs stage1.5 already seems to
> be too big for the FFS boot blocks (by about 200 bytes), and it isn't
> even full-featured yet (no symlink support). :(
I'll investigate it.
> These are all details that will need to be handled later, but I'm not
> too concerned about them right now. Thanks for mentioning them,
> though...
Of course, I don't want to force you to do them, I'd like you to do
anything you like. I'm interested in stage1.5 personally, because the
stage2 in grub i18n is too large to be loaded by stage1. If you have
no time to do them, I'd like to do them by myself.
Thanks,
OKUJI
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