From: Pascal Bellard <pbellard@lucent.com>
To: Michael McConnell <soruk@eridani.co.uk>
Cc: Linux 8086 <linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bootability
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 16:57:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CF7AB92.10980CB6@ascend.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0205311740110.17913-100000@Zeskia.int.eridani.co.uk
Bootkit bootloader can install MBR, Minix bootblocks and is 8086 clean.
Neil Holmes is working on it.
-pascal
Michael McConnell wrote:
>
> An issue I've found is, if a hard disc (or HD image for emulator users) is
> completely blank, even when partitioned it will not boot - it seems like it
> needs an MBR to be placed on the first 256 bytes of /dev/bda.
>
> Are there any plans to implement a mechanism of writing an MBR (such as
> LILO's bootloader or DOS's fdisk /mbr) ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-31 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-31 16:43 Bootability Michael McConnell
2002-05-31 16:57 ` Pascal Bellard [this message]
2002-06-03 23:07 ` Bootability Riley Williams
2002-06-04 8:57 ` Bootability Pascal Bellard
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