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Cc: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>, "Wilkinson,
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Subject: Re: [TEST/REVIEW] boot0cfg/fdisk issue fix
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On Tuesday 12 July 2005 08:10 am, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> 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 ?

It used to be the default boot0 a few years ago, but there were a few machines 
that it would hang on that I don't think were ever worked around/fixed, so it 
was reverted.  It should work on most x86 machines just fine however.  You 
should be able to use boot0cfg to install it still.

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