On Jul 24, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> 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.
I have integrated my old patch. I still have to test it, but it fits
into the boot sector, doing some space optimizations.
Patch will follow as soon as I confirm that it works.
Jochen
