The boot sector of the floppy was the first sector. If you're talking about a raw floppy image (1440K), it should be the first 512 bytes of the image file.
From memory, this gets loaded by the BIOS into 7c00:0000 (real mode) and then jumps to that address.
The DOS boot floppies had a 3-byte JMP
instruction there to jump over the Disk Parameter Block (DPB), which detailed the attributes of the disk. But, if you're in total control of the disk and your boot code, I don't think you need to follow that convention. I don't recall any BIOS' checking what was loaded for validity (though admittedly it was a long time ago).