[syslinux] some thinkpad data

[Ferenc Wagner]

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes:

> Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>>> - You may have to use the SYS command in FreeDOS...
>>
>> I did, and then it booted FreeDOS.  Then I installed Syslinux, and now
>> it boots Syslinux.  Perfect.  But it still has the FRDOS signature in
>> the boot sector, according to the command quoted above!  How can it be?
>
> There is some disagreement what the proper thing to do with the 
> signature is.  One school of thought is that it should follow the boot 
> sector code, another is that it should follow the superblock, i.e. the 
> system that partitioned the disk.  The Microsoft recommends leaving this 
> field as "MSWIN4.1" at all times, which seems to somewhat follow the 
> latter theory.
>
> Accordingly, I changed Syslinux quite a while ago to the "latter theory" 
> of operation - it does *not* overwrite the system signature.

Oh, that clears it up very nicely.
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Thanks,
Feri.