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> find a drive, check for a boot sector, then boot from it

And how would you call the System code that does this? Would you want such a piece of code to be able to Output something to the screen in case it can't find such a boot sector? Should it be able to take user Input (e.g. in case multiple valid boot sectors are found)? These are quite Basic requirements for any early-boot phase.




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