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Annotation of coherent/a/usr/man/COHERENT/mboot, revision 1.1.1.1

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                      3: mboot                     Device Driver                     mboot
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                      8: Master boot block for hard disk
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                     11: To be bootable, a COHERENT  file system must contain a boot block
                     12: (either  boot or  mboot).   In addition, all hard disks must con-
                     13: tain the master boot block mboot or an equivalent.
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                     15: mboot is the master boot block for a hard-disk drive.  It is com-
                     16: patible  with, and  therefore can  replace,  the IBM  master boot
                     17: block  installed by  the MS-DOS  command FDISK.   It must  be in-
                     18: stalled in the first sector of the hard disk, as follows:
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                     21:         /etc/fdisk -b /conf/mboot /dev/at0x
                     22:         /bin/sync
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                     25: mboot searches its  internal partition table (updated by the com-
                     26: mand ffddiisskk) for an active  partition.  The user can select an al-
                     27: ternate partition by  pressing 0-3 before the active partition is
                     28: selected.  If  the selected partition is of  non-zero size with a
                     29: valid  partition boot  block, the partition's  boot block  is ex-
                     30: ecuted.  Otherwise, the prompt
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                     33:         Select partition [0-7]
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                     36: will appear.
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                     38: ***** Files *****
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                     40: /ccoonnff/mmbboooott -- Hard-disk master boot block
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                     42: ***** See Also *****
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                     44: boot, device drivers, fdisk, mkfs
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