> > True. However, if someone were to update their ancient i386 running
> > 1.3.1 to 2.0 that way, and render it unbootable, it would be an easy
> > fix to boot from a sysinstall floppy and change the MBR ID.
> 
> True enough. They could also put their old kernel in "netbsd.old" as
> is my usual trick and get things better afterwards. As I said,
> "whether it is still needed in GENERIC is arguable". I'm not
> going to yell much about someone removing it.

That would be unlikely to work - certainly none of the dynamic executables
will load with the old kernel.
OTOH I'm sure it isn't really a problem...


	David

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