[Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:31:07AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>On 08/30/2009 10:15 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>
>> So if I have now triggered your interest in this technique, Peter, 
>> then perhaps we will see interesting funky tricks in syslinux in the 
>> future?
>>
>
>Well, this is really independent of Syslinux... it's a special MBR; if 
>you notice, makebootfat has the instructions on how to build such a 
>hybrid stick with Syslinux.

Oh, ok.

I thought that syslinux (and pxelinux, isolinux etc.) was closely tied 
to the mechanism of a MBR, and even ships with some MBR...

I'll keep on dreaming, then :-)


  - Jonas

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