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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: problem with new biosboot?
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>                /* This is a good idea for all disks */
>                bsize = dl->d_partitions[part].p_size;
>                bend = boff + bsize - 1 ;
>                if (bend / spt > 1024) {
			    ^^^
>                        printf("partition is out of reach from the bios\n");
>                        return 1;
>                }

spc should work better :-).  It's amazing that spt often works.  It works
here because bend = 32767 and spt = 32 on one system and 52 on another.

Bruce