From: Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Big USB disks
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 19:25:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1771106.tdWV9SEqCh@lenovo.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK2H+eeeLpLMYBed5D-NPs-iNFDcLBNjJC23-q9RjdesOC=5cw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday, 23 December 2020 18:56:37 GMT Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 11:25 AM Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
>
> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 23 December 2020 09:54:36 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > > On 22/12/2020 14:58, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > > Greetings,
> > > >
> > > > Just a quickie - is there a way to enable a machine built on an MSDOS
>
> BIOS
>
> > > A *what* BIOS? Do mean you run MS-DOS as on OS?
> >
> > What would you call it?
> >
> > $ file /boot/boot.0800: DOS/MBR boot sector.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Peter.
>
> Are you possibly conflating BIOS which is computer code in ROM on the
> motherboard and what the CPU runs on power up with the MBR which resides on
> the hard drive you are booting from?
>
> - Mark
The file boot.0800 appears to be a backup of the MBR bootloader code and I bet
it is 512B in size. It reflects dev with major number 08 and minor number 00,
e.g. /dev/hda1, or /dev/sda1. I would also bet this was created by LILO,
which is polite enough to back up the existing MBR before dumping its own code
in the first sector of a hard disk. Characteristically, MSWindows is not that
accommodating for other persons' bootloader codes.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-23 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-22 12:58 [gentoo-user] Big USB disks Peter Humphrey
2020-12-22 15:32 ` Rich Freeman
2020-12-22 16:36 ` Peter Humphrey
2020-12-22 16:48 ` Rich Freeman
2020-12-22 18:11 ` Peter Humphrey
2020-12-23 9:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2020-12-23 18:25 ` Peter Humphrey
2020-12-23 18:56 ` Mark Knecht
2020-12-23 19:25 ` Michael [this message]
2020-12-24 9:29 ` Peter Humphrey
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