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A comment on X86 boot sector written in C (2010).

Re:X86 boot sector written in C (2010) by Keyframe on Friday October 24, 2014 @11:41AM (#8504184)
The last 2 B of the boot sector must have the value 0xAA55; this value is known as the boot signature.

Shouldn't this be 0x55AA because of little endian? Otherwise nice writeup, but unreadable code.

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Re:X86 boot sector written in C (2010) by to3m on Friday October 24, 2014 @12:17PM (#8504369)
No, the 0x55 comes first.
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