From: Adrian Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems booting with LS-120 drive
Date: 25 Jul 2000 06:54:13 +0200
> Thanks to Jochen and Okuji for the help and the solution. One comment,
> as this is a "seldom used" feature, wouldn't it be better to create a
> seperate stage1 to leave the space for more important things in the
> future ?
But I don't have any other thing which should be added into the
stage1 (at the moment, of course), so, if there is anything that makes
use of only some bytes space, it should be included.
Here's a story. A while ago, I talked with Andrew about if it was
possible to add a new feature which enables GRUB to identify disks by
"tags" as well as BIOS drive numbers, but it turned out that this was
impossible unless we would throw away BPB (some ten bytes). Thus, it
was not useful to just make the stage1 only a few bytes smaller, so I
didn't modify the stage1.
Okuji
