From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pascal Bellard Subject: Re: Bootability Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 16:57:54 +0000 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3CF7AB92.10980CB6@ascend.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Michael McConnell Cc: Linux 8086 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) ?