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Subject: Re: is this booting info correct?
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Fbsd1 wrote:

[snip]
> 
> The number of hard drive primary-partitions/slices is determined by the
> motherboard BIOS (Basic input output system), not the operating system.
> Standard motherboard BIOS limits hard-drives to 4 main divisions
> 
[snip]

Not quite true. The only thing contained within the BIOS is an instruction 
to jump to sector 0 of track 0 after a successful POST. 

-Mike