Joseph Smith schrieb: > are really opposed to. But, All the info to boot is laid out in the > MBR/first sector of the Active Partition. > The first sector contains code. Code, that usually relies on BIOS services to proceed (eg. to load its own config, to load the kernel, etc) > 1. the MBR tells us where to find first sector of the Active Partition. > 2. The first sector of the Active Partition tells us where OS Boot Sector > code (GRUB stage2) is > Even GRUB stage2 relies on BIOS services for all kind of hardware access. Granted, there are native drivers (some of them appeared because of coreboot), but I think you usually won't find them in the boot sector of an installed system.
When it comes to other boot loaders, all bets are off (though I'd wager a bet that except for highly specialized stuff, all of them rely on BIOS, if only, to support booting from various IDE/SCSI/whatever controllers) Regards, Patrick Georgi -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
