Re: doubt regarding partition table and bootloader

2010-06-29 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 05:56, raja roy raja.ro...@gmail.com wrote:  I have one more doubt, as the primary boot loader transfers control to the 1.5 staged boot loader located just after the end of MBR, which (1.5) loads the secondary boot loader. My doubt is--            How does the 1.5

Re: doubt regarding partition table and bootloader

2010-06-28 Thread raja roy
thank you luca, arshad, adam for participating in the discussion and correcting my concepts. thanks a lot!!.. :) I have one more doubt, as the primary boot loader transfers control to the 1.5 staged boot loader located just after the end of MBR, which (1.5) loads the secondary boot loader. My

doubt regarding partition table and bootloader

2010-06-27 Thread raja roy
Hi All, I was trying to understand the booting steps, BIOS loads the first sector (MBR) of a bootable device(considering disk only) in RAM (:7c00)and then jumps to that addr to execute the primary boot loader which in turn loads the secondary boot loader(grub) pointed to by an active

Re: doubt regarding partition table and bootloader

2010-06-27 Thread arshad hussain
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:40 AM, raja roy raja.ro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All,   I was trying to understand the booting steps,  BIOS loads the first sector (MBR) of a bootable device(considering disk only) in RAM (:7c00)and then jumps to that addr to execute the primary boot loader