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From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au
Subject: Re: Using space in a DOS filesystem
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In article <199508221526.BAA13856@godzilla.zeta.org.au>,
Bruce Evans  <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote:
>The mount of root would probably fail if the partition was invalid.  I
>guess you could put the partition boundaries in the data for the program
>replaces the standard boot loader.  How are you going to select where
>to boot from?  Standard boot managers should be able to handle the
>partition within a partition method (:-().

Who cares? In this environment you can boot from a DOS program, since you're
guaranteed a DOS partition. Pass the bounds to the kernel any way you want...
you're not constrained to the boot block environment any more.