From: "Jochen Hoenicke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems booting with LS-120 drive
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 11:20:20 +0200 (MET DST)
> It is possible to change grub to honor the fields in the DOS boot
> sector. I wrote a patch some time ago, but it doesn't apply cleanly
> anymore, since the boot sector changed for the --force-lba option.
> The main problem is to add this feature, without getting beyond the
> 512 byte boot sector limit.
There are three ways to add it:
1) Shrink the size of stage1. I know it can be some bytes smaller,
since I talked with Andrew Clausen about this issue rather keenly. I
don't know if that is enough for your purpose, though.
2) Rewrite the binary image directly when installing GRUB. This is
ugly but should work well.
3) Create another stage1, as I did for "stage1_lba" in the past. This
is reasonable, since most of the users don't need such a feature.
Okuji
