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From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
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Subject: Re: boot0 screen output with dual-boot of FreeBSD / WinXP
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:25:04PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> Basically, no. There is no room left in boot0 :(
> 
> I think you could do it by squeezing down some text strings, and removing 
> other [less common] entries though.

That's what I had to do when I special-cased it for serial console support.

If there's sufficient demand we could resurrect the 1024-byte boot0, but
call it something else.

BMS