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From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
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To: "Robert V. Baron" <rvb@cs.cmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: new boot loader ... documentation
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On 6 Jan 1999, Robert V. Baron wrote:

> Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> writes:
> 
> > Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> > 
> > The "new boot blocks" tutorial limits itself to the "boot blocks":
> > that is, the hidden first and second stages of the bootstrap which
> > are written to the disk by disklabel(8).
> 
> What would be equally interesting is a tutorial/overview on btxld,
> btxldr, and btx.  How full an OS is btx?

Oh, yes, pleeez... Write something about it - even quite general concepts
would be helpful, not to mention the usage and arguments.

Andrzej Bialecki

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