Hi!
14-Фев-2004 00:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to
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EA> Hi, Arkady reminded me that fat32lba boot sector stores fat_secshift at
EA> offset 0x68 of the boot sector, thus overwriting CODE !? This would break
EA> metaboot (generic loader for MetaKern menu entries) compatibility :-(.
Fortunately (for you), real code change will happen only when sector
size will be not equal to 512.
EA> Please change the code so that no important data is overwritten. Then it
I already do this. :) This is easy - simply use division instead
shiftings.
EA> will be possible again to have easy MetaKern installation with help of
EA> metaboot EVEN FOR FAT32. Arkady tells that the fat32chs boot sector is even
EA> completely metaboot incompatible -
Yes - fat_start and data_start placed over code. However, they may be
placed over unused BPB parts, like in fat32lba.
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