Re: bootxx needs to fit within 0th track of MBR partition?

Martin Husemann <[email protected]> Fri, 25 Aug 2023 15:55:45 +0200

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On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 09:36:43AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> That matches my memory, except that I find the first partition at zero
> to be relatively normal.  At least that's what we did on real computers
> before PCs :-)

And no partitioning at all on floppies, so for this context the original
limit calculation is still valid AFAICT.

Martin