I have been attempting to track down why cdrom boots will not work with
/boot/loader, but do just fine with the boot-block.  I have come to the 
following wild speculation, and stab in the dark.  /boot/loader uses some
int13 stuff, which I found while reading in the boot0inst man page may cause
trouble on certain machines.  I believe this may be our smoking gun, but I lack
the time and experience to actually track it down.

I could use boot0cfg to set 'packet' mode, but I am affraid that by doing so
I may loose all access to my machine and need to attack it with a boot floppy.

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David Cross                               | email: cro...@cs.rpi.edu 
Systems Administrator/Research Programmer | Web: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,         | Ph: 518.276.2860            
Department of Computer Science            | Fax: 518.276.4033
I speak only for myself.                  | WinNT:Linux::Linux:FreeBSD


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