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Old 21st May 2014
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Correction:

Boot sector limits can affect other architectures, not just those with MBRs (amd64, armish, armv7, i386, macppc, zaurus). Both the bootloader and the kernel must reside within the BIOS sector addressing limit, as the kernel is read by the bootloader using BIOS I/O services.
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