[syslinux] [PATCH 1/1] v3: Add Diagnostic MBR for trouble-shooting BIOS boot-order problems.

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/30/2009 02:39 PM, TJ wrote:
> diff --git a/mbr/mbr-diag.S b/mbr/mbr-diag.S
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..eba4192
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/mbr/mbr-diag.S
> @@ -0,0 +1,377 @@
> +/*
> + Diagnostic Master Boot Record
> + Copyright 2009 TJ <linux at tjworld.net> <ubuntu at tjworld.net>
> + Licensed on the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2
> +
> + This is a diagnsotic master boot record (MBR) with the sole purpose of 
> + reporting the BIOS values received at boot-time for addressing mode, drive-number,
> + device geometry, active partition and magic bytes of active partition boot sector.
> +
> + It is an aid to determining why some devices fail to boot correctly when
> + using the 'default' MBR.
> +

Hi TJ,

This message had fallen off my radar, I'm sorry for that.

The other MBRs in the Syslinux distribution are licensed under the MIT
license, would that be acceptable for this as well?

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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