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To: "Chris Csanady" <ccsanady@friley216.res.iastate.edu>
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Subject: Re: Very disturbing boot block problems.. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 17 Sep 1996 18:33:49 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:24:59 PDT
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <199609180133.UAA01881@friley216.res.iastate.edu>you write:
>Error: C:1029 > 1023 (BIOS limit)
>
>Anyone else ever experienced this?

Yup, I experienced this several times some months ago, and never got an 
explanation that made sense.  If I booted kernel.old, and then copied the new 
kernel to / again, it would generally work after a few tries.  There was just 
some location that would cause the boot blocks to choke.

  Bill