cool stuff, like you still fit quite a bit in there too, 510 bytes can be tricky.
if you want an ahci controller to 'see' it, it will need partition table too, which will make it even less bytes (or maybe cleverly encoded)
if you want an ahci controller to 'see' it, it will need partition table too, which will make it even less bytes (or maybe cleverly encoded)
If one day I'll give in and take the shell out or go multi-stage, I will definitely look at that.
Maybe it's worth blogging about the journey; it's been a few weeks of merciless trade-offs to reach a usable API. It can make for a fun read (:
Thanks for taking a look!
if you do not put partition table, qemu AHCI controller will not recognize disk as bootable and u cant use SATA. with only the magic footer at the end of mbr, it will only work on IDE controller.
try it.
What exactly do you mean by that? Device discovery proceeds from the root (usually PCIe bus, after CPU-specific init) to the leaves, not the other way around.
qemu AHCI controller
That's its problem then. This isn't a problem on real hardware.