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Re:Why do PCs load their boot sector at 7C000h linear? by yuhong on Saturday September 26, 2015 @04:38AM (#10282565)
It is 7C00h linear.
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Re:Why do PCs load their boot sector at 7C000h linear? by raverbashing on Saturday September 26, 2015 @05:58AM (#10282664)
Yeah, it's not 7C00:0000, it's 007C:0000 (or 0000:7C00)

shudders

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Re:Why do PCs load their boot sector at 7C000h linear? by wruza on Saturday September 26, 2015 @07:57AM (#10282843)
07C0:0, actually :)
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Re:Why do PCs load their boot sector at 7C000h linear? by raverbashing on Saturday September 26, 2015 @08:04AM (#10282857)
True, too bad I can't fix in the original comment

"The 16-bit segment selector in the segment register is interpreted as the most significant 16 bits of a linear 20-bit address"

However, Wikipedia has a funny quote on that

"Once the BIOS has found a bootable device it loads the boot sector to linear address 7C00h (usually segment:offset 0000h:7C00h, but some BIOSes erroneously use 07C0h:0000h"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting#BOOT-LOADER

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