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Date:      Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:38:36 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: about boot0
Message-ID:  <XFMail.011210133836.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011209145628.64563.qmail@web21104.mail.yahoo.com>

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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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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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