Some articles on boot drive unit, boot, drive:
... maintained or specifically set up CSIP = 0000h7C00h (fixed) DL = boot drive unit (see above) MS-DOS 2.0-7.0 / PC DOS 2.0-6.3 MBRs do not pass on the DL value received on entry, but rather use ... MBR partition tables, it won't change things unless the BIOS attempted to boot off a physical device other than the first fixed disk / removable drive in the row ... This is also the reason why these operating systems cannot boot off a second hard disk etc ...
... The boot code in the VBR can assume that the BIOS has set up its data structures and interrupts and initialized the hardware ... operation if it needs more memory it should query INT 12h for it, since other pre-boot code (such as f.e ... in memory as well (and would typically hide themselves from the boot sector by reducing the reported INT 12h memory accordingly, so that they do not get overwritten by ...
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