From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Big USB disks
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 11:56:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK2H+eeeLpLMYBed5D-NPs-iNFDcLBNjJC23-q9RjdesOC=5cw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11679416.O9o76ZdvQC@peak>
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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
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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 [this message]
2020-12-23 19:25 ` Michael
2020-12-24 9:29 ` Peter Humphrey
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