Am 29.12.2011 um 12:20 schrieb David Laight: > The actual 'pc' boot sequence is: Ah brilliant, answers to all the questions I wanted to ask anyway.
> 4) The pbr code now reads the rest of the 8k 'boot code' area at the > start of the partition This means "MBR partition", right? And this "boot code" is what is called "primary boot" in BSD terminology, right? > this is the rest of bootxx_xxxfs. What do you mean by "rest of"? > 5) The bootxx code now tries to load the 'boot' program from filesystem, > it checks the following places for a filesystem: I don't quite get why it has to look for a filesystem. I thought (and in only 8k it must have) the block numbers of /boot encoded into it by installboot? So, are these block numbers FS-relative? I thought they were disklabel-partition relative. > a) the start of the partition This again means "MBR partition", I suppose?
