On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:59 AM, sivakumar <[email protected]> wrote: > In the first stage of the boot, the BIOS loads a part of the boot > loader known as the initial program loader, or IPL. The IPL > interrogates the partition table and subsequently is able to load data > wherever it may exist on the various media. This action is used > initially to locate the second stage boot loader, which holds the > remainder of the loader. > > Boot loaders are usually configured in one of two ways: either as a > primary boot loader or as a secondary boot loader. Primary boot > loaders are where the first stage of the boot loader is installed on > the MBR. Secondary boot loaders are where the first stage of the boot > loader is installed onto a bootable partition. A separate boot loader > must then be installed into the MBR and configured to pass control to > the secondary boot loader. > > Hope this explains >
Thanks for sharing :) Regards, Amit Pundir > On May 17, 11:18 am, Amit Pundir <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:47 PM, krishna chaitanya >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> >> > how to do the primary boot either for beagle board or panda board.Can >> > anyone pls help in mentioning about the steps doing it. >> >> Hi, what do you mean by primary boot? >> >> Regards, >> Amit Pundir >> >> >> >> > Thanks, >> > Krishna Chaitanya >> >> > -- >> > unsubscribe: [email protected] >> > website:http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > > -- > unsubscribe: [email protected] > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
