How does BIOS find Boot Sectors?

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From: mr c.r. hames
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 01:27

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     How does the BIOS know how far in is the boot record from the start of
a harddisk that is going to be autobooted from?  Like how does it work out
how much partition info is before the boot record ?


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