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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot table.c
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>> My version passes the typed-in device name to the kernel and the kernel
>> ignores the boot blocks' guess of the major if it can make sense of
>> the name.  I might finish this if anyone still uses the old boot blocks.
                                           ^ else

>I'm hoping that we can start dropping the /sys/i386/boot stuff,
>with the probable temporary exception of netboot, within the next
>few weeks, unless there are serious objections to doing so.

I hoped we could drop the new boot blocks :-).  I don't plan to use them.
(Your boot2 is a neat hack, but is even more hackish than biosboot.)

Bruce


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