RE: about boot0

[John Baldwin]

On 09-Dec-01 Hiten Pandya wrote:
 hi all,
 is there a reason behind.. why all Windows related
 boot
 options are marked as DOS?...
 
 src/sys/boot/i386/boot0.s
 
 is it because of the 512-byte limit...

Yes.  There used to be a 1024 byte boot0 which did use different names (as well
as auto-detecting the need for EDD) but it was backed out since it froze on a
few systems.

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Re: about boot0

[Matthew Emmerton]

I believe it's because the boot loader goes by partition type.  All
Microsoft operating systems can use FAT (either FAT16, FAT32 or both).  The
boot loader can't tell what operating system you've got installed on your
FAT partition, so it goes with the lowest common denominator - DOS.

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Matt Emmerton

 hi all,
 is there a reason behind.. why all Windows related
 boot
 options are marked as DOS?...

 src/sys/boot/i386/boot0.s

 is it because of the 512-byte limit...

 =
 -Hiten,

 Thank You,
 Yours Sincerely,
 Hiten Pandya,
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