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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, joed@telecom.ksu.edu
Subject: Re: 2.2-Beta install
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>Just a thought if you're every bored (yeah right), I made an attempt to
>boot off the floppy drive by booting the hard drive the specifying to
>boot off fd(0,a)/kernel (I tried several varients of this line).  Reason
>for this is because I set the system up to boot on drive C: only for 
>security reasons.  The one time the boot actually started it simply scrolled
>errors (can't remember what they were).

The installation kernel uses a specially broken bootstrap to save space.
It uses rawboot instead of biosboot.  biosboot can't handle raw disks :-(.
This hack shouldn't be necessary now that 1200K floppies are no longer
supported.

Bruce