[syslinux] [PATCH] mboot: set boot device

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Apr 5 13:15:12 PDT 2010


On 04/05/2010 01:11 PM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 04/04/2010 11:39 AM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
>>> Set the boot device based on the derivative information.
> ...
>>
>> Is this really a good idea (that is, giving the device number but not
>> the partition information)?
> 
> It is at least valid for floppies. I checked grub and it set 0xffffff in that case.
> 

Floppies don't have partitions, so that is non-applicable.

	-hpa




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