>From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
>
>Suggestion: use the new boot blocks from -current. The old boot blocks
>had the behavior you are mentioning hard wired in when booting from floppy.

OK...given that information, I believe I've found the source of the
problem.  I seem to have source code for two different generations of
the boot blocks on my system.  One set is in /sys/arch/i386/boot and
another set is in /sys/arch/i386/stand/biosboot.  The stuff in
/usr/mdec seems to have been generated by the source in
/sys/arch/i386/boot, which looks like it's all from 1995 and 1996.
The stuff in /sys/arch/i386/stand/biosboot is much newer.  Am I
correct that these are two versions of the same thing?  How do I clean
up my system so that it compiles the correct boot blocks?

Many thanks,
entropy

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