[syslinux] Why does the extlinux installer rewrite the first sector of extlinux.sys?

Ferenc Wagner wferi at niif.hu
Sun May 30 02:17:18 PDT 2010


Hi,

I don't get the point of the write-patch-rewrite sequence.  Why is it
done this way?  I mean, why patch the first sector if you rewrite it
anyway?  Or why rewrite it, if you don't patch it?  (I didn't check
whether patch_file_and_bootblock touches the first sector or not.)
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Thanks,
Feri.




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