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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, terry@lambert.org
Subject: Re: boot disk....
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>Stage 2 boostrap ...
>... should perform MBR fixup to
>guarantee that the absolute offset field in the MBR matches the c/h/s 
>values for the slice under the BIOS geometry.

Only for its own benefit.  Drivers don't want to know about yet another
translation.

>It should also be buildable
>as a DOS program, to allow it to work with Ontrack's Disk Mangler.  The

Nothing should require DOS utilitites to build.

Bruce