Using ADLO with Linuxbios

Steve Gehlbach steve at nexpath.com
Sat Apr 26 22:05:01 CEST 2003


Eric W. Biederman wrote:

>The BOOT_IDE driver has been modified in strange
> ways to find things in the first partition and I have not had a chance
> to look over the code to see what is going on there yet.
> 

Not strange to me, by default it simply skips 63x512 bytes (0x7e00), 
which is normally for most disks today where partition 1 starts.  Of 
course, it should read and decode the partition table, but this is much 
harder.

-Steve





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