Charles Gaefke wrote in a message to Don Woodall:
DW> That is your problem.  All bootable partitions must be 
DW> entirely, completely with the first 1,024 logical cylinders for 
DW> the BIOS to see the partition and boot it.
 CG>     For *ANY* operating system?
For any OS that's going to let the bios handle the initial disk i/o, 
apparently.
I suppose that the bios could read the boot sector,  and that you could 
conceivably stuff some code in there that would read a bit better loader from 
somewhere on the disk,  and that it could go on from there,  maybe...
I wonder why they decided that the initial loading had to be done by the BIOS 
code?  There's probably a good reason for that design choice,  but it's not 
apparent to me.
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