Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: AA55 signature at the end of Linux bootsector | Date | 8 Jul 1998 09:05:13 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980708090211.1239D-100000@einstein.london.sco.com> By author: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@sco.COM> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Hello guys, > > Just a suggestion: would it not be nice to have a 0xAA55 signature at the > end of the bootsector (NOT an MBR!) of the Linux root partition so that > commercial bootloaders (e.g. the one that comes with UnixWare 7) could > load it just as easily as they load dos/windows stuff instead of giving > "Missing operating system" error? >
You're missing that you don't just need a signature... you need a BOOT LOADER there too!!
> Btw, just to confirm, am I right in assuming that LILO does put AA55 > signature at the end of bootsector if installed in a partition instead of > an MBR?
Yes it does; as does it if you install it in an MBR (the MBR is just a boot sector in itself that happens to also contain a partition table.)
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