prep(8): document search for 9LOAD [rsc] --rw-rw-r-- M 1328934 glenda sys 13874 Mar 28 12:55 sys/man/8/prep /n/sourcesdump/2006/0328/plan9/sys/man/8/prep:600,609 - /n/sourcesdump/2006/0329/plan9/sys/man/8/prep:600,610 .I bfile to make the disk a boot disk. It gets loaded by the BIOS at 0x7C00, - reads the root directory into address 0x7E00, and looks at - the first root directory entry. - If that file is called - .BR 9LOAD , + reads the first sector of the + root directory into address 0x7E00, and looks for + a directory entry named + .BR 9LOAD . + If it finds such an entry, it uses single sector reads to load the file into address 0x10000 and then jumps to the loaded file image. /n/sourcesdump/2006/0328/plan9/sys/man/8/prep:610,616 - /n/sourcesdump/2006/0329/plan9/sys/man/8/prep:611,617 The file .B /386/pbslba is similar, but because it uses LBA addressing (not supported - by all BIOSes), it can access more than the first 8.5GB of the disk. + by older BIOSes), it can access more than the first 8.5GB of the disk. .PP .I Mbr installs a new boot block in sector 0 (the master boot record)