[syslinux] COM32 Advice

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Apr 21 10:15:11 PDT 2003


Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com wrote:
> Just figured I'd send it as an FYI. I spent the last three weeks digging up
> this info, and 
> 	1) it doesn't seem to be well documented
> 	2) everybody confuses MBR with the partition boot record.

Actually it's pretty well documented in the FAT spec, as these things go.

> It is a really big pain to rewrite SYS.COM under linux without adequate
> docs.

That it is... am I reading this as though you're trying to write a Win* 
installer for Linux?

	-hpa




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