Hi,

triggered by a discussion on alt.sysadmin.recovery, I've implemented
executing block disk devices. Works fine with (i386) wd0b, didn't 
work with fd0a:

Index: kern_exec.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/syssrc/sys/kern/kern_exec.c,v
retrieving revision 1.102
diff -u -r1.102 kern_exec.c
--- kern_exec.c 1999/08/09 02:42:20     1.102
+++ kern_exec.c 1999/09/20 13:51:41
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
        epp->ep_vp = vp = ndp->ni_vp;
 
        /* check access and type */
-       if (vp->v_type != VREG) {
+       if (vp->v_type != VREG && vp->v_type != VBLK) {
                error = EACCES;
                goto bad1;
        }

- do we want this?
- why doesn't it work with the floppy driver?

Regards,
	-is
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