Re: Grub and the VSTa filesystem

["Thomas J. Erdos" <erdost@usxchange.net> writes:]

>The question is now, how does the first stage bootloader, - which is only 512
>bytes big, and does not know about filesystems- where to find stage2, that
>might be stored on a harddrive, as a file on a filesystem, is much bigger
>than 512 bytes, has the knowledge about the filesystem, and the blocks need
>not succeed each other.

I suspect one could pad the stage2 with (512-320) bytes, and then have the
bmap'ing of it ignore the first block. So the "real" stage2 contents would
start at offset 0 in a 512 byte block, and that block would be the first one
mapped in stage1's list of blocks. It'd be a little screwy, but it should
do the job....

Andy Valencia
Received on Sun Aug 1 07:45:53 1999