At Wed, 28 May 2003 19:19:37 +0400,
Yury Umanets wrote:
> check fat_stage1_5 31744
> check e2fs_stage1_5 31744
> check minix_stage1_5 31744
> 
> All these limits are 31744, that is 63 sectors. But we have yet another 
> more strong limit on stage1_5 size. As stage1_5 is loaded to 0x2000 and 
> stage2 is loaded to 0x8000, then we have 0x8000 - 0x2000 = 24576 bytes.

Ah, you are right. I didn't realize it.

> And this is not finish yet. As says grub.info, LBA flags is loaded 
> 0x7F00, that is, we have for stage1_5 0x8000 - 0x7F00 = 24320 bytes.
> I'm right? Does stage1_5 uses LBA flags?

Yes, you are right. The flags are used at the startup code of Stage
1.5 and Stage 2.

Thanks,
Okuji


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