On Tue, 05 Aug 2014 16:45:16 -0400, Wolf K  wrote:


> I think there is some confusion there.
> Unless I am much mistaken,
> a) The BIOS chip has a file system on it, else there could be no BIOS.

I totally disagree. The bios and mbr both do contain code, but they are
both just blocks of code, with no names, no index, and each can only
contain the code (though the mbr also contains the partition table).

When the computer starts, it loads the block of code stored in the
bios, and then runs it. It does not search through a file system to
decide which "file" to load, as it doesn't yet have any code to run
that could search a file system.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS for more details about the
bios usage.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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