From: StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt on
On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:31:56 -0500, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
<spamtrap(a)library.lspace.org.invalid> wrote:

>
>Talking to yourself? I doubt that you can identify any poster here whose
>MBR points directly to an OS. But then, you're so dumb that you probably
>believe that BM, grub and lilo and OS's.


Speak English, MetzTard.

Ever heard of Petitboot? You gonna tell us that is NOT an OS as well?

You sure your name isn't Rosie? Are you one of those retards that
doesn't think we went to the Moon, or that no plane hit the Petagon?
From: bb on
On 2009-11-09 15:01, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
> In <hd924i$98p$1(a)news.al.sw.ericsson.se>, on 11/09/2009
> at 01:32 PM, bb <spamtrap(a)norsborg.net> said:
>
>> You seems to be on the brink of going mad,
>
> Brink?

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brink

>
>> seek a doctor
>
> Kevorkian.
>
>> Show your parents
>
> First she/he/it would have to locate them.

They are probably in the same house, feeding it.

/bb
From: David Bolt on
On Tuesday 10 Nov 2009 09:41, while playing with a tin of spray paint,
bb painted this mural:

> On 2009-11-09 15:01, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
>> In <hd924i$98p$1(a)news.al.sw.ericsson.se>, on 11/09/2009
>> at 01:32 PM, bb <spamtrap(a)norsborg.net> said:
>>
>>> You seems to be on the brink of going mad,
>>
>> Brink?
>
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brink

I think Shmuel knows the definition of brink, but was questioning
whether the OP was on the brink, or well passed it.


Regards,
David Bolt

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From: wolfgang kern on

"Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" replied:
>"wolfgang kern" <nowhere(a)never.at> said:

>> I didn't mean that it must be the first entry in the partition table, but
>> I think it must reside on the first sector of a physical drive as long no
>> other boot-loader is involved :)

> No, you can install grub in the MBR but you don't have to, and I generally
> don't.

I once saw a manually modified BIOS which could boot from partitions,
but standard x86 BIOS I've ever seen since 8086 just execute the first
512 bytes of a physical drive and totally ignore the partition table.

As I understand:
To boot from partitions rather than from drives is the job of the
bootloader.
So the code in the MBR is usually the first instance of any bootload.

If your BIOS can selective boot from partitions, please let me know which
one you got.
__
wolfgang


From: StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt on
On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:34:26 -0500, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
<spamtrap(a)library.lspace.org.invalid> wrote:

>
>You need to go back a lot farther than that for my HS days.

Liar.