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[ale] what is the file /boot/boot.b ?
- Subject: [ale] what is the file /boot/boot.b ?
- From: jknapka at kneuro.net (JK)
- Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:11:58 -0700
- In-reply-to: <1165438456.7692.0.camel@localhost>
- References: <002f01c71971$9ec7edd0$5f01a8c0@SAMBA> <[email protected]> <1165438456.7692.0.camel@localhost>
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