Jonathan Stone writes:
> I've tried building a `diskless-boot' floppy. The floppy has the
> latest -current bootblocks and a kernel with "root on ? type nfs", and
> nothing else.
> 
> One thing I've noticed is that the 2.0beta bootblocks seem much slower
> at reading a kernel off a floppy than the old 1.27 (or thereabouts)
> bootblocks. Has anyone else seen this, or is it just me?

Its possible. We did add some performance hacks to try to read a track
at a time (at one point it was *VERY* slow), but...

Perry