On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:29:02AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Does anyone know what problems we might run into by setting a random or
> arbitrary loader ID? we have to set something.
>From linux/Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt:
0x210 char LOADER_TYPE, = 0, old one
else it is set by the loader:
0xTV: T=0 for LILO
1 for Loadlin
2 for bootsect-loader
3 for SYSLINUX
4 for ETHERBOOT
V = version
They've got seven left, so it seems unlikely anyone would refuse to assign
linuxbios number 5. But searching on LOADER_TYPE gives no location where
it's actually used to test for anything, so I'd bet that if you set it to
something nonsensical (0xFF?) I doubt anyone would ever notice.
