> thx, i'll verify this (if it worked or not); nonetheless i wonder why the
> 'official' boot disks seem to be affected?

Hadn't spotted that bit - must learn to read properly!

Do they boot in any other system?
(going that far won't trash anything)

The boot floppy itself should contain a 'tar' archive if you skip
the first 8k.

	David

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