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Date:      Tue, 25 May 1999 11:54:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, brian@Awfulhak.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot table.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.990525115033.1082E-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199905251747.TAA14745@ceia.nordier.com>

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On Tue, 25 May 1999, Robert Nordier wrote:
> 
> Anyone else with reasons to keep the /sys/i386/boot/* (except netboot)
> code around any longer?

Not so much the code istself as we have our own copy of them
but as a way of making sure that old bootblocks can still boot aout
kernels etc. having them around is useful.

We have a whole production line resting on the fact that the old
bootblocks work :-) 

The many thousands of machines in the field that may want to upgrade one
day still need their original bootblocks to be able to load new stuff.
and having th eold bootblocks around makes it more likely that people
won't break that.

just a thought.
 
julian




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