Hi!
12-Сен-2004 18:06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luchezar Georgiev) wrote to
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>> Therefore I vote for a SYS option which lets you decide whether or not
>> the 0x80 in the boot sector will be used. The DEFAULT should be, in my
>> opinion, to accept the value from the boot manager / MBR / BIOS for
>> harddisks. For floppy, 0 will be in the boot sector, and the DEFAULT
>> should probably be to ignore the value from the BIOS / boot manager.
LG> Why discriminate between floppy and hard disk?
As was discussed earlier, there is trouble with some old BIOSes, which
not pass boot drive number into boot code. After this discussion was decided
to remain fixed value 0 for boot code on diskettes and FFh mask for HDs.
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