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[ale] what is the file /boot/boot.b ?
- Subject: [ale] what is the file /boot/boot.b ?
- From: hscast at charter.net (Scott Castaline)
- Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:30:10 -0500
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <002f01c71971$9ec7edd0$5f01a8c0@SAMBA> <[email protected]> <1165438456.7692.0.camel@localhost> <[email protected]>
I thought that's what the stage1 file was in grub. Stage1 file is
exactly 512 bytes....
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 14:11 -0700, JK wrote:
> Jim Popovitch wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 13:42 -0700, JK wrote:
> >
> >>boot/boot.b is the boot block of a disk image -- the first
> >>512 bytes, which is automagically loaded and executed by
> >>the PC BIOS when the machine boots. It contains code that
> >>loads the actual bootloader (grub or LILO or whatever).
> >
> >
> > Interesting. I don't see boot.b on any of my grub systems, only on the
> > lilo ones.
>
> I'm just saying in principle that's what it's for.
> Grub might have an appropriate boot record hard coded
> within it for handy writing-out-to-disk, or store
> its boot block in a different file, or whatever.
>
> -- JK
>
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