Subject: Re: proposed re-work / unification of boot block installation
To: Klaus Klein <kleink@reziprozitaet.de>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/12/2002 13:01:30
On 12 Mar 2002, Klaus Klein wrote:

> As an amusing sidenote, the PReP specification suggests writing i386
> code to the MBR which, "when executed on an x86 machine, [...]
> displays a message indicating that this partition is not applicable to
> the current system environment."

Isn't that how the old, "this is not a system disk, please insert one"
messages worked?

Take care,

Bill