Re: OT: MBR programming

Paolo Alexis Falcone <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:52:50 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.philippine.newbies
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On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 07:14 -0800, charkee berekeke wrote:
> goodness no  i only want to create a sort of "secret" bootloader 

There's no such thing as a "secret" bootloader. What information about
the MBR (which only exists in IBM PC-based systems anyway) would you
need aside from the MBR being a 512-byte structure consisting of a
446-byte initial program loader, 64 bytes from 4x16 bytes partition
descriptors and a 2-byte magic number? I'm not even sure if an MBR is
needed for more modern x86 architectures that already use EFI...

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Paolo Alexis Falcone <[email protected]>

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