> 
> 	Would it be possible to have old kernels working with the new
> 	bootblock, even under an 'ifdef OLD_BOOT_INTERFACE', which would
> 	be retired sometime after the 1.5 release. It wouldn't really
> 	matter if they could not get the boot device and had to always
> 	ask...
> 
Oh, that's simple. Why didn't I think about that? :-) I just added
four more instructions and now it can boot.

-- Ragge