Re: Booting with an "extended" floppy

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: Thierry Laronde <address@hidden>
Subject: Booting with an "extended" floppy
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 17:08:50 +0100

> But the problem is to allow the BIOS and GRUB to access all these
> informations. Is it enough to find a way to tell it how many cylinders and
> sectors it must expect from the floppy ? In the process of loading stage2,
> are there some impossibilities to load the blocks if the floppy is not a
> "standard" one ? Is it necessary, using `superformat' to create enough
> "normal space" at the beginning of the floppy, in order to load stage2, then
> to give some extra informations about the disk geometry to allow stage2 to
> reach extra informations ?

Jochen wrote a patch to embed a geometry in the BPB of stage1, though
I don't know his patch can be applied to the current version. See the
archive of this list, for more information.

Okuji