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Re: Documenting the MBR in a dbootstrap messagebox.



>>"Karl" == Karl M Hegbloom <karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com> writes:

 Karl>  I agree.  What if we install it the way we always have, and then tell
 Karl>  about the holding down a key during boot will produce a prompt
 Karl>  allowing booting from any partition or a floppy, and then say that
 Karl>  this feature can be disabled, please read the manual?

        Sounds ideal.

 Manoj> And this should definitely become a configuration option, at
 Manoj> your earliest convenience.

 Karl>  I agree.  There should be a set of checkboxes to set the
 Karl>  `install-mbr' switches.  I have no idea how hard it is to do that
 Karl>  yet; Today I will be reading the `dbootstrap' code for the first
 Karl>  time.

        Thanks,

        manoj
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