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when OS start, it call Master Boot. Master Boot include Partition Entries. Partition Entry has BootSector. And Boot Sector has system information and a [B]code [/B] to load OS into memory, right? I want to ask that What structure of this code? what language make it? And how to add one by myself? In addition, when OS load itself into RAM, What file it will load? Give me an example when DOS load into RAM (and maybe Windows too) Thanks Ask More - Learn More JohnJone
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when OS start, it call Master Boot. Master Boot include Partition Entries. Partition Entry has BootSector. And Boot Sector has system information and a [B]code [/B] to load OS into memory, right? I want to ask that What structure of this code? what language make it? And how to add one by myself? In addition, when OS load itself into RAM, What file it will load? Give me an example when DOS load into RAM (and maybe Windows too) Thanks Ask More - Learn More JohnJone
i know that on linux it's the /boot/vmlinuz file that is the kernel, and that gets loaded into memory first... i also know that windows nt/2k/xp/2k3 looks at boot.ini in your root (c:\) to see where to find the kernel, and that the ntldr file in your root is also used in the boot process... don't really know much more than that however... -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298