On 2014-02-06, Chris Cappuccio <ch...@nmedia.net> wrote: > 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 can, but BEWARE! At least on some popular arch, serial console will not work.