Yep this was one of the reasons that a boot partition for linux and other operating systems became some common back in the early 2000s. Disks outpaced the hard

Yep this was one of the reasons that a boot partition for linux and other operating systems became some common back in the early 2000s. Disks outpaced the hardware and a lot of them didn't support reading from further in on the disk. Operating systems could use drivers to talk directly to the hardware and then get around that limitation once booted but everything they needed to that point needed to be available early on.