Jonathan Stone wrote:
> Is this x86 or sparc? On other machines I use, if you boot from
> floppy, you're gonna get the 2nd-stage bootblock from the floppy, not
> the hard disk. Hm. Isnt that how i386 works, too?

i386. If that's how it works, it's of course non-sense
to look for both /boot and new secondary (whatever it is).
Looking for just the new name seems enough to me.

Jaromir