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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?                     --       James Harris              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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