From: Jochen Reinwand <jbr.1@gmx.net>
To: Kenneth Porter <shiva@sewingwitch.com>
Cc: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Creating bootable USB key
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:19:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511212119.29422.jbr.1@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25FD451E2EF455E2F78CB2B9@[10.0.0.14]>
> How does the MBR written by ms-sys know what "system file"
> to transfer control to? Is it a hard-coded name?
AFAIK it reads the filesystem (FAT) to search for some typical filenames, but
I'm not sure...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-21 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-20 18:05 Creating bootable USB key Kenneth Porter
2005-11-20 19:28 ` Jochen Reinwand
2005-11-21 10:22 ` Andrew Brooks
2005-11-21 11:34 ` Jochen Reinwand
2005-11-21 16:36 ` Kenneth Porter
2005-11-21 20:19 ` Jochen Reinwand [this message]
2005-11-21 10:53 ` Bart Oldeman
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