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Re: DOS bootsector needed for NOOBS install?

From Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance@OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject Re: DOS bootsector needed for NOOBS install?
Organization Farry's Pad
Message-ID <s3st4bpg3skdlrdknbbuutbcsv0ndcam7p@4ax.com> (permalink)
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Date 2015-11-20 10:10 +0000

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And regarding your question about an "MS DOS master boot record": No,
it's not needed. The Pi's SOC is smart enough to understand the vfat
filesystem and it looks inside that for the file bootcode.bin, which it
loads and runs. bootcode.bin will be supplied as the initial bootloader
file with any OS intended for the Pi.

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DOS bootsector needed for NOOBS install? "Markus R. Kessler" <dimke.fax@uni.de> - 2015-11-19 22:12 +0000
  Re: DOS bootsector needed for NOOBS install? Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance@OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> - 2015-11-20 09:58 +0000
    Re: DOS bootsector needed for NOOBS install? Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance@OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> - 2015-11-20 10:10 +0000
      Re: DOS bootsector needed for NOOBS install? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-20 10:15 +0000
        Re: DOS bootsector needed for NOOBS install? "Markus R. Kessler" <dimke.fax@uni.de> - 2015-11-20 14:04 +0000
  Re: DOS bootsector needed for NOOBS install? "M.O.B. i L." <mobil@orbin.se> - 2015-11-21 00:51 +0100
    Re: DOS bootsector needed for NOOBS install? Dom <domafp@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-11-21 05:47 +0000
      Re: DOS bootsector needed for NOOBS install? "M.O.B. i L." <mobil@orbin.se> - 2015-11-21 11:39 +0100
        Re: DOS bootsector needed for NOOBS install? Dom <domafp@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-11-21 21:15 +0000
          Re: DOS bootsector needed for NOOBS install? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-11-21 22:09 +0000
            Re: DOS bootsector needed for NOOBS install? "Markus R. Kessler" <dimke.fax@uni.de> - 2015-11-23 10:14 +0000
            Re: DOS bootsector needed for NOOBS install? Dom <domafp@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-11-23 11:08 +0000
              Re: DOS bootsector needed for NOOBS install? "Markus R. Kessler" <dimke.fax@uni.de> - 2015-11-23 11:31 +0000

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