[ale] what is the file /boot/boot.b ?

[courtneycthomas at bellsouth.net (Courtney Thomas)]

How do you create one if it's missing, please ?

Thanks,
Courtney


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JK" <jknapka at kneuro.net>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] what is the file /boot/boot.b ?


> 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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