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Re: Booting from hard disk with redboot
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- To: Marius Rumpis <marum at elsis dot com>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 19:22:52 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Booting from hard disk with redboot
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <001b01c1fda0$f8aebb40$4a0b0a0a@GMARIUSR>
Marius Rumpis wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have some questions about redboot:
>
> 1. Is it possible to load and run master boot record from hard disk boot
> sectror? If it is, can I do it?
Of course you can - it's software. But no-one has done it *yet* :-).
Actually that's not quite true (see
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-discuss/2001-03/msg00398.html for
example) but it certainly isn't supported "out of the box".
> 2. Does the redboot use a BIOS functions for IDE interface devices handling,
> or it has its own drivers?
RedBoot has its own drivers. See packages/redboot/current/src/fs/*.c
Jifl
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