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Hi, i found on some information about how a computer
starts some info on what gets copied to the DL
register when the bios first loads the bootloader.
The information was for telling the bootloader
where it was loaded from.
the values
00h for the first floppy drive and
80h for drive c.
Drive c would be a ms windows thing. Are there
any other codes i should be aware of for say a linux
partition or can a bootloader only be loaded from
drives a and c?
Thanx

>On 2002-04-08 16:57:07, Brill wrote:
>Hi, i found on some information about how a computer
>starts some info on what gets copied to the DL
>register when the bios first loads the bootloader.
>The information was for telling the bootloader
>where it was loaded from.
>the values
>00h for the first floppy drive and
>80h for drive c.
>Drive c would be a ms windows thing. Are there
>any other codes i should be aware of for say a linux
>partition or can a bootloader only be loaded from
>drives a and c?
>Thanx
No, this is not the partition C on your harddisk,
it is the first EIDE driver in your computer.
Those codes represent the drives as used for int 0x13!

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