"Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> writes:
>> + possibly with the help the BIOS.</para>
> of----------------^
Thanks for finding that.
>> + <para>The code within the MBR is usually referred to as a <emphasis>boot
>> + manager</emphasis>, especially when it interacts with the user; in this case
> . I------------------^
>> + the boot manager usually also has more code in the first
>> + <emphasis>track</emphasis> of the disk or within some OS's file system. (A
(Too long, huh? I like semi-colons too much. In high school, an
English uber-teacher asked for a 15-sentence story, and I wrote some
very long sentences that she uncharacteristically accepted, semicolons
and all. A roommate showed me a book he was reading that had
sentences which ran on for pages; maybe a whole chapter, I forget.)
I've changed it, thanks.
>> + remainder of the operating system. The MBR installed by &man.fdisk.8;,
>> + by default, is such an MBR; it is based on <filename>/boot/mbr</filename>.</para>
> . I-------------------^ (This one is debatable and there
> is no clear right/wrong issue.)
Yeah, I like that one. It would be better with "it's" (but we have a
lame rule against it). But I can see that the last phrase has nothing
to do with the first except it = MBR, so I'll change that one too.
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