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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: i386/1809: floppy boot code causes reboot of computer
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>> PR i386/1809 is apparently stale, and should be closed.  Floppy boot
>> used to work fine for years now.

To be precise, it was buggy until a few months ago, but happened to work
in old releases not including 2.1.5, and has been fixed for months now:
-current:	fixed in rev.1.6     1996/11/11
-2.2:		fixed in rev.1.5.4.1 1996/11/12
-2.1.6:		fixed in rev.1.4.6.2 1906/11/12
-2.1.5:		broken
-2.1.0:		broken source code, non-broken object code.

Don't use the boot blocks from 2.1.5.  In fact, don't use anything older
than 2.1.6.

Bruce