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

[Jeff Lightner]

Running command "file stage1" I see:
stage1: x86 boot sector, GRand Unified Bootloader (0.94), code offset
0x48

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Scott Castaline
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 4:30 PM
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Subject: Re: [ale] what is the file /boot/boot.b ?

I thought that's what the stage1 file was in grub. Stage1 file is
exactly 512 bytes....

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 14:11 -0700, JK wrote:
> 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
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