On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:23:07PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> If one wants to run Xen, one has to use grub, and grub seems to expect
> to use sectors after 0 for grub stage 1.5.  Hence my advice not to
> fight the PC way, since one might decide to use xen later - I recently
> had to do a reconfiguration of a machine because of this.

Grub can be configured to put the stage 1.5 elsewhere - for example it can
be installed to a FFS partition where is enough place to put the stage 1.5
(in the reserved 8k or so at the start).

But the default installation of GRUB does what you described.

Pavel