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   James Harris to Alexei A. Frounze   
   Re: Booting from FAT16   
   20 Dec 21 16:37:38   
   
   From: james.harris.1@gmail.com   
      
   On 20/12/2021 09:27, Alexei A. Frounze wrote:   
   > On Sunday, December 19, 2021 at 2:43:46 PM UTC-8, James Harris wrote:   
   > ...   
   >> I will then need to load the OS loader but than can be difficult in just   
   >> 512 bytes as I would like it to be a normal file. No special sectors. No   
   >> unmovable sectors.   
   >   
   > Not too difficult (beware of the overflow bug, though).   
   > https://github.com/alexfru/BootProg   
      
   I'm amazed at how much you managed to fit in one sector. There are some   
   learning points - for example, I hadn't thought of using pusha and popa   
   - but more importantly it looks as though you load entire clusters at   
   once. I hadn't thought of that and had been doing it sector by sector.   
      
   What did you mean about the overflow bug?   
      
      
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