Re: AA55 signature at the end of Linux bootsector

Chad C Giffin (typo@t-net.org)
Wed, 8 Jul 1998 18:48:44 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
:
:I did not refer to a partition table as a boot-sector. I refered to the
:first sector of a partition that contains a kernel (Linux, DOS, UW7,

You'll find most kernels are too large to sit in this sector. So it
therefore containeth not the kernel, rather a kernel loader.

This would be the place of dwelling for lilo.

Further clarification would be to inform you that the MBR sits not at the
head of partitions, rather at the head of the disk. [Sector 0]

Chad C Giffin
The Network

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