Re: stage1_5 is useful? - grub legacy

[adrian15]

Bean wrote:
> 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.

I do not know.

I even think that this useful link:

http://www.multibooters.co.uk/mbr.html

is not useful in this case.

But it's NOT a DEFAULT Vista behaviour it only happens with some 
antivirus or firewalls I think.


adrian15
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