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From: Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua>
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Subject: Re: boot2 broken ? (booting from pst fails)
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 Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 18:00:28, eckert (Toerless Eckert) wrote about "Re: boot2 broken ? (booting from pst fails)": 

TE> When was actually this btx client concept introduced in FreeBSD ? Eg:
TE> wasn't the bootstrap in before the kernel real-mode up until
TE> BSD 4.x ?

AFAIR, it was introduced between 3.0 and 3.1. 3.1 already had got /boot/loader
very similar to modern one.


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