On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Arun Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > > I suspect the old BIOS still reads the first sector of the hard drive and > jumps into it. I haven't yet looked into how control is transferred to grub > after that. >
I searched on it and got this http://www.ata-atapi.com/hiwmbr.html but i wonder if this doc is outdated. >Any mechanism that doesn't look at the legacy partition table > should be ok. There is something called a "protective MBR" on GPT systems > that is designed to prevent tools from messing with GPT data structures. > It seems strange that HP has a patent on this topic! > -Arun > Thanks for the info :-) --Siju _______________________________________________ bsd-india mailing list [email protected] http://www.bsd-india.org/mailman/listinfo/bsd-india
