Duncan McEwan writes:
> > It should not be necessary to check for both in the assembly part
> > because you know how the disk is partitioned when the bootstrap
> > is installed. The IDs used here never refer to other disks.
> > (we could offer 2 bootstrap versions, an old and a new ID aware)
> 
> True.  But it would be more convenient if we didn't have to do that.
> Checking for both should be fairly trivial for someone who knows
> i386 assembly well enough.  The only possible problem would be if
> the extra code made the initial boot sector too large.  Is this likely?

I think we have a little breathing room, and besides, we only need
this for people migrating -- the code to check both and not just new
would presumably be #ifdef'ed.

Perry