[Ilugc] Regarding MBR and bootloader

Chakkaradeep C C chaks.yoper at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 09:49:18 IST 2005


hi Prem,

thanks for the reply....



>
> See if this helps. MBR has info about four partitions
> with one being set as bootable (bootable flag in
> partition table). Check if this is set if it is set
> then add a entry in boot loader. This is what bios
> does to boot the system (loads the boot record from a
> partition which is set as bootable if MBR has no
> executable code).


from the bootable flag,can i find Windows is installed or not?

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Regards,
Chaks


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