Subject: Re: HELP-- need i386 boot blocks
To: None <current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- Iowa State University <michaelv@iastate.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 07/29/1994 20:17:44
Mark Weaver <mhw@cs.brown.edu> writes:
>I've got a problem.  I need some i386 boot blocks that will:
>
>  1. Boot a 1.0-ALPHA kernel with DDB
>  2. Run on an old (level-1) file system

Are new kernels not supposed to boot on older boot blocks?  I've had
no problems so far on my oldish 1.18? bootblocks.

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