[syslinux] Boot sector rebooting

ganapathy murali krishnan gmurali at cs.uchicago.edu
Wed Jun 7 10:04:58 PDT 2006


Adam Wysocki via ArcaBit wrote:

>07.06.06 egan at sense.net wrote:
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>>Is there something that I can put on a drive's boot sector so that when
>>booted it just reboots, and that its partition information is also intact?
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>Put these five bytes at the beginning of MBR: EAh 00h 00h FFh FFh
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A random thought: Instead of just a "JMP FF00" would it be better to

* print "Rebooting"
* sleep 2
* JMP FF00

This will allow the user to see why the reboot is happening (distinguish 
from some hardware fault).

- Murali




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