On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, maximum entropy wrote:

> >Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:40:35 +0100 (MET)
> >From: Anders Hogrelius SdU <elt96ahs@mds.mdh.se>
> >
> >Any idea why the old boot.mop doesn't work. I tried an older version
> >(from 9805- something) since the new one Ragge has provided us with :-)
> >seems unable to boot the older kernels. If i try to boot any of the
> 
> The way the bootloader and kernel are arranged in memory upon booting
> changed recently.  I know you definitely cannot boot a new kernel
> using an old loader, and it doesn't surprise me too much that you
> can't boot an old kernel with the new loader.

Uh. I seem to remember successfully booting a new kernel with the old
loader, you just have to remember to add bit 6 to the bootparam (0x40).

	Johnny

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