Re: [coreboot] Convert Assembly JMP to C

[Joseph Smith]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:53:04 +0200, Peter Stuge  wrote:
> Joseph Smith wrote:
> > My JMP question is about copying a drives mbr to memory 0x7c00 and
> > or 0x0600 at 512 byte blocks.
>
> ..
> > What do you think?
>
> I think you should just use SeaBIOS.

Nope. This will be a autoboot_mbr option of FILO. Here is how it will work:

It will comb through each drive and attempt to boot the first drive with a
valid mbr signature bit (0xAA55). Maybe a slight delay for user
intervention, and then boot boot the drive based on the info in the mbr.