On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Paul Goyette wrote:

> What I really wanted to know is (1) is/are known issues with the
> -current bootblock code, (2) have I found some new problem (in which
> case, what info is needed tohelp get it fixed), or (3) if I did
> something wrong.  Your response implies that (3) is the wrong answer,
> which makes me feel less like a PC dummy.  :)
> 
> So, is/are there known issues with -current bootblocks, or what info do
> people need to figure out my problem?

It _was_ broken for a while, but it seems to be working OK now. I've
made a couple of boot floppies myself in the past two weeks without
much problem. Sometimes, though, it fails silently on a mounted
floppy. It always works on an umounted one, either with "-f" and no
disklabel, or with an actual disklabel. You can tell if it wrote the
blocks or not by inspecting the output with the "-v" option. Sorry I
don't have a sample; I'm not at the PC.