Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> writes: >> I'm slightly fuzzy, but disk layout is generally: > >> 0: 1st-stage boot >> 1: disklabel >> 2-15: 2nd-stage boot >> 16-N: filesystem > > This does not sound right, and checking reveals that it is not how the > disk is laid out on my IPX. > > Rather, what I see is > > - Sector 0 contains the disklabel > > - Sectors 1-15 contain first-stage bootblocks I think my confusion is: how you described it is how sparc and other 'real computers' :-) work what i described might be right for i386 So does the prom load sector 1, or sector 0, which has a load/jump of sector 1 plus a disklabel, or ??
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