Subject: Re: new laptop drive
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/28/2002 19:53:21
David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> writes:
> On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 06:35:03PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> writes:
> > > On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 03:34:19PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > > > As the author of part of our current bootloader, let me note that I
> > > > believe we probably do have enough space for this, but that doing the
> > > > check reliably might be a bit tough.
> > > 
> > > I have looked at (and fixed) some issues in the mbr_bootsel code.
> > 
> > It wouldn't be done in the mbr_bootsel code. That should be quite
> > obvious to anyone who understands how the boot blocks work.
> 
> But this is the first bit of code that needs to know.....

Er, no. It isn't. Sorry. You obviously don't understand the boot
blocks that well, I'd suggest spending some time reading the code.

Perry