Kenneth Westerback [kwesterb...@gmail.com] wrote: > > And, surprise!, boot blocks do change. 5.5 will be an example as things are > rearranged and unified. >
But you can still use old bootblocks to run the new kernel as a bootstrap You don't get the proper random seed functionality until you update your bootblocks, so obviously, do so. I'm not sure there was ever a release where old bootblocks wouldn't work with a new kernel, at least on amd64.
