From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 9 9:48:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCBB514CE4 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 09:48:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA80365; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 09:48:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 09:48:42 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Robert Watson Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question about boot loaders In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Robert Watson wrote: > loader loadedby function > -------------------------------- > mbr BIOS whatever, maybe a couple of lines /boot/mbr is a copy of the classic DOS MBR code. Used by fdisk. Simply loads the partition marked as 'active' (flag 0x80). Everything else was covered in Neil's handbook piece (which I should probably grab & commit! :-) ) Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message