Re: OT: MBR programming
Paolo Alexis Falcone <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:52:50 +0800
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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... -- Paolo Alexis Falcone <[email protected]> _________________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Newbie Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph