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Re: DOS bootsector needed for NOOBS install?

From "Markus R. Kessler" <dimke.fax@uni.de>
Newsgroups comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject Re: DOS bootsector needed for NOOBS install?
Date 2015-11-20 14:04 +0000
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Am Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:15:22 +0000 schrieb The Natural Philosopher:

> On 20/11/15 10:10, Dave Farrance wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> But be aware it has to be VFAT...

Hi, thanks for the info -- I was just about to test it with EXT2 :-)

BR,

Markus


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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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