[ale] what is the file /boot/boot.b ?

[JK]

Jim Popovitch wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 13:42 -0700, JK wrote:
> 
>>boot/boot.b is the boot block of a disk image -- the first
>>512 bytes, which is automagically loaded and executed by
>>the PC BIOS when the machine boots.  It contains code that
>>loads the actual bootloader (grub or LILO or whatever).
> 
> 
> Interesting.  I don't see boot.b on any of my grub systems, only on the
> lilo ones.

I'm just saying in principle that's what it's for.
Grub might have an appropriate boot record hard coded
within it for handy writing-out-to-disk, or store
its boot block in a different file, or whatever.

-- JK