Re: stage1_5 is useful? - grub legacy

[Bean]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:35 PM, adrian15 <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>         I have developed a new option (for grub legacy) that avoids stage1
> to stage1_5 link so that only stage1 to stage2 link happens. Should I set up
> this option as the default option?

It's best not to link stage1 to stage2 directly. If you do, the
location of stage2 is stored inside stage1, this means whenever you
change the location, perhaps by running defrag, you have to reinstall
grub again.

>
>         This avoids problems with some Windows (Vista) systems that insist
> in overwriting the sectors just after the MBR where stage1_5 resides.

Can you check how many sectors are overwriting by vista ? If there is
still room in the first track, you can embed 1.5 in some place after
the scratch area.

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Bean