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WDe and GPT, booting DOS (Users)

posted by Japheth Homepage, Germany (South), 04.11.2022, 08:06

> * Full file must be loaded, implying that the boot sector loader needs to
> relocate itself away from linear 07C00h

Interesting! So I assume - for FAT12/16 - it has to follow the FAT chain for a full read of kernel.sys. And does this code - including the relocation stuff - still fit in one sector ( as the boot loader of the MS-DOS 6.2 kernel, for example ) ?

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