[gPXE] Only register bios drive without booting
Miller, Shao
Shao.Miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca
Tue Mar 23 10:57:21 EDT 2010
Good day Andrew,
I believe that way it works is: gPXE checks the MBR for an MBR
signature. gpxe/src/arch/i386/interface/pcbios/int13.c: int13_boot().
If that fails, control is returned to gPXE. Also, if an MBR calls INT
0x18 or INT 0x19, I believe control is also returned to gPXE.
So a zeroed-out MBR should work, as you mention, and so should an MBR's
boot code finding no active partition and calling INT 0x18[2].
- Shao Miller
[1] http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot/iscsi_install
[2] http://www.ata-atapi.com/hiwmbr.html
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