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| From: | Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Who believes in cylinders? | ||
| Date: | Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:28:57 | ||
| Message-Id: | 201002271820.24518.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Who believes in cylinders? by BRM |
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| 1 | On Saturday 27 February 2010, BRM wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > Stage 1 focuses solely on loading Stage 2, |
| 4 | > and has historically been limited to a total size[1] to 512 bytes, |
| 5 | |
| 6 | It's actually less than that, because the first 64 bytes of sector 0 contain |
| 7 | the partition table, so the maximum size of a stage1 bootloader is 510 - 64 = |
| 8 | 446 bytes. |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Who believes in cylinders? | Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> |