Re: OT: MBR programming

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Last time I checked EFI support in the Linux Kernel (2.6.14.3) is still e=
xperimental.... :) Are BIOS's w/ EFI support even going to be Linux frien=
dly?
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 Have fun!
 -Bryan

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=20

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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<div id=3D"RTEContent">Last time I checked EFI support in the Linux Kerne=
l (2.6.14.3) is still experimental.... :) Are BIOS's w/ EFI support even =
going to be Linux friendly?<br> <br> Have fun!<br> -Bryan<br><br><b><i>Pa=
olo Alexis Falcone &lt;[email protected]&gt;</i></b> wrote:<blockquote c=
lass=3D"replbq" style=3D"border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-=
left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 07:14 -0800, charke=
e berekeke wrote:<br>&gt; goodness no  i only want to create a sort of "s=
ecret" bootloader <br><br>There's no such thing as a "secret" bootloader.=
 What information about<br>the MBR (which only exists in IBM PC-based sys=
tems anyway) would you<br>need aside from the MBR being a 512-byte struct=
ure consisting of a<br>446-byte initial program loader, 64 bytes from 4x1=
6 bytes partition<br>descriptors and a 2-byte magic number? I'm not even =
sure if an MBR is<br>needed for more modern x86 architectures that alread=
y use EFI...<br><br>-- <br>Paolo Alexis Falcone
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