parbreastioning Dell for linux 7041

philo

Reading up is what gets me in trouble. There's a lot of supersbreastion, is the impression.

How does something boot? I buttume (just constructing a fantasy) that the BIOS is flashed to read in the mbr, which contains boot code and four addresses. It may ask which one you want (are they named in ascii?).

What is the boot code for? who knows. It may have to do with ancient times when the machine loaded the first HD sector into memory and jumped to it - I understood that at least - and perhaps there were enough bytes to ask which one you wanted, which it would read in and jump to. Think of it as a PDP-11, the last machine you could do something useful with from the panel keys.

Who knows what it all does today? The BIOS ought to be big enough to do almost anything nowadays.

Having gotten more code into memory, the last parbreastion can be made a data card doing almost anything, and it's unguessable.

The rules, as I got them from Reading, is that addresses marked bootable could be booted, and there were only 4 available, and of them I have only one left, and that's going to be usurped by the logical parbreastion (which I'm guessing is just a software extension created in the days of bigger flash memories).

There's a sort of other field of programming, where you get good and fluent in various utilities without having to worry about what they're going to do to you, and that's fine, but it's not where I'm at.

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