The boot sector bootloader is broken for anything but genuine legacy
floppies, because it relies on getting the proper sector not found in
order to determine the geometry. Most LBA<->CHS conversions -- and
that includes El Torito, IDE floppies, USB floppies, and just about
anything else that isn't a classical legacy floppy -- simply spill
into the next track, confusing bootsect.S. This is part of why
bootsect.S is gone in 2.5.
-hpa
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