Jason Thorpe wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 09:39:27 +1000 
>  Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org> wrote:
> 
>  > I just tried a different tack:
>  > 
>  > 	if load("boot/pmax") fails
>  > 		if load("boot") fails
>  > 			die
> 
> Hi, can we please avoid the sub-directory thing?  Someone might want
> to trim subdirectories out of the file system used by the primary boot
> block.

Have you got an example of where this might be useful?  If we leave the
subdir check in the bootblocks themselves and someone wants to lay out a
filesystem without a /boot directory, they can.

Simon.