From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 10 13:39:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2CA937B417 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:38:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 5587 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2001 21:38:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Dec 2001 21:38:40 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011209145628.64563.qmail@web21104.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:38:36 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Hiten Pandya Subject: RE: about boot0 Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message