Subject: Re: proposed re-work / unification of boot block installation
To: <>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/13/2002 10:24:11
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:01:30PM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On 12 Mar 2002, Klaus Klein wrote:
>=20
> > 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."
>=20
> Isn't that how the old, "this is not a system disk, please insert one"
> messages worked?

Yes, I think so.

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