From owner-freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 31 05:57:30 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2039D106566C for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 05:57:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prdptr@yahoo.com) Received: from nm11.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm11.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.212.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C5B248FC13 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 05:57:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.139.212.148] by nm11.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 31 Mar 2011 05:45:04 -0000 Received: from [98.139.212.242] by tm5.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 31 Mar 2011 05:45:04 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1051.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 31 Mar 2011 05:45:04 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 68653.74107.bm@omp1051.mail.bf1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 53464 invoked by uid 60001); 31 Mar 2011 05:45:03 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1301550303; bh=XIc6iDuRka8d9hCgW96vhW5+ODTyDJvqAZvL+sFeKws=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=1gxG9UML1jriaD6RzXgVriD6Ag1XjD4O3cN4VkXfuil4ZMkECt9ZAnVozjidZ8v8j6jSv1KPYEeG1qLXl3zdYIyKAYpfO0aQ8n0l7eftg/BAEptICOEcjllkdQwhtSJJ0r/De4/n0dHQ6Kq1vy8bSDC97hzGbMQtrll4q19tiEs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=00FUAr/jmZiykWUSVZCAtYgFs7RJlQtWaH74ODqT0Ymr7EF6d2H+OhuICY2O+UDJBOoI+iN9DerSgoV6z7Ns8Szk+GTzKERnbRybEDFC4Jf45fO9q0JbEKvWCTzEiqr8xhUFb5zZXJjNmbOz14DS7c9f5qtJ+uIz9zXJ8kUSlss=; Message-ID: <866346.43292.qm@web161709.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: B2UpKAMVM1k_r85MxTtkwokHBsLTuEDReY8f70xNp0ifrTp kV73RCGrJMzLl_058X_W9bgu2.dAD92tgVLJZnGN8ZAmREDgPseZMhsMTkI5 kthyUMM5ShX6Tu9qZSpu5JdK0JTgH22TQK5hlDWTNaZWGurd53gmDuKg04vp ihKMFaZijYT_R2pFlWaBtJz2RL6zB8tg5k2DiJRiPSU.BKhztdL2NGjown78 7p9iWyPRrEC87HMzoyndgzNn1MZIlVRmFcV1fRThV9m7m.WSnGwVzH1gIcav _LfNb.kfbXYyqMQ-- Received: from [62.245.223.226] by web161709.mail.bf1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:45:03 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/12.0.2 YahooMailWebService/0.8.109.295617 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:45:03 -0700 (PDT) From: pradeep tr To: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:21:43 +0000 Subject: What's the difference betweenn boot0.S and boot0ext.S X-BeenThere: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: I386-specific issues for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 05:57:30 -0000 Hi, I understand that from mbr.s we go for either boot0.s or boot0ext.s am I correct here? If yes when do we go for boot0.s or boot0ext.s? or is it like that mbr.s 's advanced version is boot0.s and boot0ext.s and called by name boot manager ?so now mbr itself is in boot0.s or boot0ext.s. --Regards, trp