> Thanks.  This being the case, I suggest that, at least in the interim,
> the examples on the installboot manual page and/or the example in the 
> Alpha port FAQ be changed to reflect reality.

So, this is what I did.  I also made the current reality the 'correct'
behaviour, while i was at it.  8-)


Though it's not particularly useful, you can now put "boot" (i.e. the
second-stage bootstrap) on any (FFS) file system on the boot disk that
you'd like, but you can still only load your kernel off of the 'a'
partition.



chris