Re: OT: MBR programming
jhuniepi <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:49:07 +0800
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--===============0320590231== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_361_9656374.1134532147744" ------=_Part_361_9656374.1134532147744 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline EFI, interface between firmware and OS loader. On 12/14/05, Paolo Alexis Falcone <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > -- cj pangilinan linux user, java programmer ------=_Part_361_9656374.1134532147744 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline EFI, interface between firmware and OS loader.<br><br><div><span class=3D"g= mail_quote">On 12/14/05, <b class=3D"gmail_sendername">Paolo Alexis Falcone= </b> <<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>> w= rote: </span><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rg= b(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Tue, 20= 05-12-13 at 07:14 -0800, charkee berekeke wrote:<br>> goodness no &= nbsp;i only want to create a sort of "secret" bootloader <br><br>There's no such thing as a "secret" bootloader. What info= rmation about<br>the MBR (which only exists in IBM PC-based systems anyway)= would you<br>need aside from the MBR being a 512-byte structure consisting= of a <br>446-byte initial program loader, 64 bytes from 4x16 bytes partition<br>= descriptors and a 2-byte magic number? I'm not even sure if an MBR is<br>ne= eded for more modern x86 architectures that already use EFI...<br><br>-- <br>Paolo Alexis Falcone <<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">pfalcone= @gmail.com</a>><br><br>_________________________________________________= ________<br>Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Newbie Mailing List<br><a = href=3D"mailto:[email protected]"> [email protected]</a> (#PLUG @ <a href=3D"http://irc.free.net= .ph">irc.free.net.ph</a>)<br>Read the Guidelines: <a href=3D"http://linux.o= rg.ph/lists">http://linux.org.ph/lists</a><br>Searchable Archives: <a href= =3D"http://archives.free.net.ph"> http://archives.free.net.ph</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear=3D"all"= ><br>-- <br>cj pangilinan<br>linux user, java programmer ------=_Part_361_9656374.1134532147744-- --===============0320590231== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _________________________________________________________ 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 --===============0320590231==--