So in that case, the FAT1x root dir entries issue should NOT break FreeDOS
booting anymore?
I really hope so.:)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Auer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 9:30 PM
Subject: [Freedos-user] re: Who wants to hear something funny?


>
> PS: Our FAT32 LBA boot sector does not REALLY use the "FAT1x root
directory entries"
>   value BUT it assumes it to be zero (it interprets the "number of FATs"
value
>   as 32bit value (lazy coding, we believed that the following word with
the FAT1x
>   root directory entries would always be 0...). Luckily Arkady already
fixed
>   that by using MOVZX ..., BYTE ... when reading the number of FATs value.




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