On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 7:36 PM Grant Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > That assumes that there is a boot loader. There wasn't one with the old > Slackware boot & root disks. >
Linux no longer supports direct booting from the MBR.
arch/x86/boot/header.S
bugger_off_msg:
.ascii "Use a boot loader.\r\n"
.ascii "\n"
.ascii "Remove disk and press any key to reboot...\r\n"
.byte 0
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Rich
