Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 19:23:31 -0600 (CST)
From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
To: "'OpenDOS newsgroup'" <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: Re: * [opendos] [OpenDOS] All of them nice ideas
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970212041352.6689B-100000@capslock.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970212192039.21165B-100000@sparkie.gnofn.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Precedence: bulk

On Wed, 12 Feb 1997 mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote:
> > > Hardware.
> > SOFTWARE!  MBR Limitation!
> Compromise - FIRMWARE (Software in hardware ie:ROM BIOS).

Ok, then the question arises, as far as I know, the boot sequence loads
the first sector off the hard drive and passes control to this program.
The MBR program then reads the table built into it and determines where on
the drive the bootable partition is and loads the BR for that partition.
That BR is responsible for loading the OS in that partition.

Right?

<! PrePared HTML!  Just export as a HTML file and Click!>
A Christian Web Site!  The Light 
<a href="http://www.thelight.org/">.</a><br>
A neat place to visit. HotSpot 
<a href="http://www.hspro.com/hotspot/">.</a><br>
Caldera, Inc. / Makers of OpenDOS
<a href="http://www.caldera.com/">.</a><br>
Caldera's OpenDOS page
<a href="http://www.caldera.com/dos/dos.htm">.</a><br>