Re: EZ-Bios and embeding stage 1.5

[Michael Haub]

Thanks a lot Jochen,

now i came to the conclusion not to use StorageSoft's EZ-BIOS.

Correct me if i am wrong:
AFIAK Ontrack's Diskmanager has the same features and hides its
presence better than EZ-BIOS. The lost bytes in the first track
don't matter for nowadays disk sizes.

Where can I get a disk image (grub + ext2fs or at best FATfs) of the latest
CVS version? I have no access to CVS as the box i am working on now has
only Windows 98 SE and the Overhead to install CVS (and learning to deal
with it) is much too high at that moment.

You are right with the backup copies of the MBR done by EZ-blabla installer
at the end of the first track. The installer showed them and I was wondering
where they came from but I didn't investigate.

We can not know how many copies the installer will do. Worst case would
be that it uses all sectors up to its INT13 handler code. So i think embedding
will never be possible in the first track with EZ-BIOS.

I think it would be nice to exactly tell which sector grub writes some bytes.
Things like (hd0)1 could be interpreted as the second sector on the first disk.
Things like (hd0)17+14 could be interpreted as 14 sectors beginning with the
18th sector on the first disk. Such a range may not mean anything to grub as
it knows how many sectors it is going to write, but this could be checked and
an comprehensive error could be issued if it is longer than the stated range.
The other thing is - it would be more logical.

A feature to copy files from the boot disk to a file system on a hard disk 
partition
would be nice.

You my reply: If you want it than do it. You are right, but ...

Thank you very much. Hoping to be of help for somebody in that list at some 
day.

Good By

Michael Haub