From: Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: the size restrictions for FAT and ext2fs stage1.5
Date: 08 Mar 1999 13:33:06 -0600
> My personal preference now leans towards ``neither.'' I think that it
> would be good to make a blocklist_stage1_5, which would have support
> for BIOS disk extensions, contain a longer block list data area, and
> load the stage2 itself.
>
> That way we don't need to modify the stage1 or stage2, just the
> install procedure.
Hmm.. Does that mean stage1 won't support BIOS disk extensions? I do
recommend that you should remove the burden of being worried that "Is
my stage1.5/stage2 within 1024 cylinders?" from the users. If the new
stage1.5 must be within 1024 cylinders, I don't find benefit from it.
Furthermore, the chain, stage1 -> blocklist_stage1.5 -> e2fs_stage1.5
-> stage2, is too long. Please tell me why blocklist_stage1.5 is good.
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