On Jan 12, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> From: "Ingo Korb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> > By the way, I just checked the in-memory image of the Win9x boot sector 
> > after it is loaded by the OS/2 boot manager. It seems that the BM does 
> > the same as the patch you sent me, but additionally it sets  the byte 
> > at offset 0x25 to 0x85 (from 0x00) - does that byte even have a 
> > documented function?
> 
> No. The byte is reserved, AFAIK.

0x24-0x27 is the 32 bit fat length for FAT32 in case the 16 bit
fat_length at 0x16 is zero.  Maybe the windows boot sector just copies
the fat_length to have it always in the same space.

 Jochen

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