Re: playing with bootxx_ext2fs

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

On 3/12/19 9:21 AM, pierre-philipp braun wrote:
> Please help me understand how installboot is doing its job.  I can try
> to take bits from bootxx_ext2fs and push it on the right places onto the
> ext2 file-system with dd if/skip of/seek.

I am going out on a limb here, but what installboot does is (1) install 
bootxx_*fs as PBR (mbr partition boot record), and (2) patch the 
location (sector offset, presumably?) of /boot into the PBR code.

I would think this is fs agnostic?

Cheerio,
hauke

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