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From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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Subject: Question about alpha bootstrap
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From looking at the Alpha boot1 code, it seems that the bootstrap
expects there to be a filesystem which starts at the beginning of the
disk, and it finds "/boot/loader" (or whatever filename you type in)
there.  So, for example, it wouldn't work to put a swap partition
first on the disk.

Is that right?

John


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