maximum entropy writes:
> >From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
> >
> >Suggestion: use the new boot blocks from -current. The old boot blocks
> >had the behavior you are mentioning hard wired in when booting from floppy.
> 
> OK...given that information, I believe I've found the source of the
> problem.  I seem to have source code for two different generations of
> the boot blocks on my system.  One set is in /sys/arch/i386/boot and
> another set is in /sys/arch/i386/stand/biosboot.  The stuff in
> /usr/mdec seems to have been generated by the source in
> /sys/arch/i386/boot, which looks like it's all from 1995 and 1996.
> The stuff in /sys/arch/i386/stand/biosboot is much newer.  Am I
> correct that these are two versions of the same thing?  How do I clean
> up my system so that it compiles the correct boot blocks?

Actually, in -current, the stuff in i386/stand is MUCH newer -- on the
order of months old. The stuff in i386/boot is old and will be
deprecated in the near future.

However, the stuff in stand is NOT currently built by default -- you
have to go in and do it by hand.

Perry