Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 23:35:17 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Hiten Pandya" <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: about boot0 Message-ID: <008201c18134$11ef4320$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <20011209145628.64563.qmail@web21104.mail.yahoo.com>
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I believe it's because the boot loader goes by partition type. All Microsoft operating systems can use FAT (either FAT16, FAT32 or both). The boot loader can't tell what operating system you've got installed on your FAT partition, so it goes with the lowest common denominator - DOS. -- Matt Emmerton > hi all, > is there a reason behind.. why all Windows related > boot > options are marked as DOS?... > > src/sys/boot/i386/boot0.s > > is it because of the 512-byte limit... > > ===== > -Hiten, > > Thank You, > Yours Sincerely, > Hiten Pandya, > <hiten@uk.freebsd.org> > <http://www.geocities.com/hitmaster2k>; > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send your FREE holiday greetings online! > http://greetings.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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