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add a workaround to boot Windows from a logical partition.

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2001-01-08 OKUJI Yoshinori <okuji@gnu.org>
* stage2/shared.h (BOOTSEC_BPB_HIDDEN_SECTORS): New macro.
* stage2/builtins.c (chainloader_func): If CURRENT_PARTITION is
FAT, set the hidden sectors field of the BPB to PART_START, to
avoid a Windows bug which affects only when Windows is booted
from a logical partition. And, clear ERRNUM after testing if a
partition is FAT, because open_partition or fat_mount may set
ERRNUM. Reported by Ingo Korb <ingo@akana.de>.
2001-01-07 OKUJI Yoshinori <okuji@gnu.org>
* stage2/builtins.c (boot_func): In the chain-loading mode,