[syslinux:master] mbr_ho.bin: install instructions

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Wed Mar 16 14:00:14 PDT 2011


Commit-ID:  e43b55ef33fca5cdff87aacd152232c12c20171d
Gitweb:     http://syslinux.zytor.com/commit/e43b55ef33fca5cdff87aacd152232c12c20171d
Author:     Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:17:13 -0500
Committer:  Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com>
CommitDate: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 21:07:03 -0500

mbr_ho.bin: install instructions



---
 mbr/mbr_ho.S |   11 +++++++++++
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mbr/mbr_ho.S b/mbr/mbr_ho.S
index 48220c2..18a5376 100644
--- a/mbr/mbr_ho.S
+++ b/mbr/mbr_ho.S
@@ -39,6 +39,17 @@
  * This should (hopefully) be only 8086 code
  */
 
+/*
+ * Install instructions (assuming your target is /dev/dev; file or block device):
+ *
+ * MBR:
+ * dd conv=notrunc bs=440 count=1 if=mbr_ho.bin of=/dev/dev
+ *
+ * VBR/PBR (works for FAT12/16/32, ext[234]fs, btrfs):
+ * echo -en "\0353\0130\0220" |dd conv=notrunc bs=1 count=3 of=/dev/dev
+ * dd conv=notrunc bs=2 count=210 seek=45 if=mbr_ho.bin of=/dev/dev
+ */
+
 // #define DEBUG_MARKER1	/* Insert markers in binary */
 // #define DEBUG_START	/* Print entry addresses at start */
 // #define DEBUG_LOADE	/* movw versus pop */



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