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From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
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Subject: Re: [TEST/REVIEW] boot0cfg/fdisk issue fix
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Hi John,

> > what is boot0ext ?
> 
> It's a 2-sector variant of boot0 that includes extra logic to choose between 
> CHS and LBA BIOS calls and a longer table of filesystem/OS names.

Are there some drawbacks that would prevent an i386 user from using it ?

Regards,
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Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >