> am I the only one who can't boot -current off floppies or is this 
> a more general problem ?

i'll bet it's a function of your kernel config.

> I have tried several kernels ( for i386 ) from June 1. 
> and none boots off floppy. They allways panic before running 
> init with a vm_fault. 

I finally am back into a position where i can test kernels, etc.,
and i found a similar problem when booting kernels with NFSCLIENT
but not NFSSERVER defined.

it was fixed earlier in the day (i think; maybe yesterday)
by charles, by moving an #ifdef a few lines.

I now have no problems booting any kernels off floppies.  Also note
that:
(1) old boot blocks should work (according to charles) with new
	file systems
(2) newly-compiled boot blocks cannot be used with the old file system
	layout.

get back to me if you're still having problems.

chris

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